Chapter Summaries

Lin Fei warned the Qing family that Bai Pojun had sacrificed their ancestral lands to the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders, then called Yao Xinyi for help dealing with the creature. Yao Xinyi rushed to Rongcheng, eager to see Lin Fei, leaving her grandfather and his guests stunned.

• Lin Fei returned to Qing Fen, Qing Lixue, and Qing Mingyu and told them Bai Pojun had sacrificed every person in the Di people's ancestral lands.
• Qing Fen grieved for his relatives, while Lin Fei said he could easily kill the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders but did not want to stand guard indefinitely.
• Lin Fei said there was another way to deal with the creature and called Yao Xinyi, who finally answered after rejecting his first two calls.
• Yao Xinyi excitedly offered to serve Lin Fei in bed, and Lin Fei told her to bring “that thing” to Rongcheng.
• Yao Xinyi raced barefoot toward her private airfield to meet Lin Fei, shocking Yao Zhicheng and his guests as Long Wolei dropped his cup.

Long Wolei pursued Yao Xinyi after Yao Zhicheng assured him she had no sweetheart, unaware that she still longed for the Heavenly Venerable. After shopping in Rongcheng, Yao Xinyi arrived at the Ji Family villa and accused Ji Yaoguang of cheating because she was so beautiful.

• Yao Zhicheng told Long Wolei that Yao Xinyi had invented a sweetheart to make him back off, and Long Wolei said he would keep pursuing her.
• Yao Xinyi flew to Rongcheng but went shopping at Taikoo Li before heading to the Ji Family villa.
• Yao Xinyi bought more than two million yuan in luxury goods and told Yao Zhong to wait at the plane for her call.
• Yao Xinyi arrived at the villa and told Ji Yaoguang she had come to attend her in bed.
• Yao Xinyi accused Ji Yaoguang of using cheats because her beauty surpassed even Yao Xinyi's.

Yao Xinyi arrived at Ji Yaoguang’s home after Lin Fei sent her to protect Ji Yaoguang, while Lin Fei stayed at the Qing family’s residence. Bai Pojun attacked the Ji Family’s villa with the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders, leaving Ji Yaoguang trapped beneath the monster’s shadow.

• Ji Yaoguang noticed the Barrier Talisman in Yao Xinyi’s necklace and learned that Yao Xinyi had come to protect her.
• Lin Fei planned to guard the Qing family’s residence while Yao Xinyi stayed with Ji Yaoguang.
• Bai Zhan called Lin Fei to warn that Bai Pojun had taken control of the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders and was heading for the Qing family’s villa.
• The Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders rampaged through Rongcheng, destroying buildings and killing people as Bai Pojun rode on its back.
• Bai Pojun ordered the monster to fly to the Ji Family’s villa, where it landed and crushed the house beneath it.
• Bai Pojun vowed to torment Ji Yaoguang in revenge for his slain kin, and Ji Yaoguang collapsed in fear.

Bai Pojun attacked Ji Yaoguang with the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders, but Lin Fei’s Barrier Talisman protected her until Yao Xinyi rescued her. Yao Xinyi then used the mysterious bracelet on her wrist to erase the spider’s enormous web, leaving Bai Pojun stunned.

• Bai Pojun rode the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders through the streets and reveled in the panic he had caused.
• Lin Fei’s Barrier Talisman shielded Ji Yaoguang from the spider’s destructive screech, but the spider broke through it with a blow aimed at her.
• Yao Xinyi pulled Wu Moling free of the rubble and threw herself onto Ji Yaoguang, saving her from the spider’s strike.
• Yao Xinyi rebuked the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders and Bai Pojun, then watched the spider spit a web large enough to cover the villa grounds.
• Yao Xinyi raised her bracelet, which blazed with white light and dissolved the web, leaving Bai Pojun exclaiming that it was impossible.

Yao Xinyi used Emperor Shun's Enci Bracelet to dissolve the spiderwebs and shrink the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders, but Bai Pojun's control remained strong enough to leave the creature confused. Bai Pojun then attacked the women, throwing Yao Xinyi away and striking Ji Yaoguang as Wu Moling watched helplessly.

• Yao Xinyi used Emperor Shun's Enci Bracelet to dissolve the spiderwebs and make the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders shrink to palm size.
• Bai Pojun tried to control the spider with his Sacrificial Ring, but the creature obeyed neither him nor Yao Xinyi.
• Bai Zhan revealed that Bai Pojun had slaughtered the Di people to strengthen his control over the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders.
• Yao Xinyi offered to help Bai Pojun kill Ji Yaoguang, but Bai Pojun attacked all three women instead.
• Yao Xinyi's Barrier Talisman protected her when Bai Pojun hurled her through a wall and building.
• Bai Pojun pinned Wu Moling with internal force and struck Ji Yaoguang, sending her flying and spraying blood.

Lin Fei rescued Ji Yaoguang and effortlessly overwhelmed Bai Pojun and the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders. As Bai Pojun knelt before him, Yao Xinyi revealed that Lin Fei was the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages.

• Bai Pojun attacked the wounded Ji Yaoguang, but Lin Fei pulled her into his arms and healed her injuries.
• Bai Pojun sent the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders’ web at Lin Fei, who erased it with a finger.
• Lin Fei struck the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders with a vast palm of light, flattening her into the ground while sparing her life.
• Lin Fei set Ji Yaoguang down and declared that Bai Pojun must die, forcing him to his knees with his killing intent.
• Yao Xinyi arrived and proclaimed that Lin Fei was the Celestial Venerable of Ten Thousand Sages, honored even by the Immortal Emperor of the Eastern Sea.

Lin Fei killed Bai Pojun after revealing that he could resurrect Ji Yaoguang, then rewarded Yao Xinyi and gave Wu Moling the bracelet and Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders. After Yao Xinyi arranged a hotel stay, Lin Fei called out her attempt to share a room with him.

• Bai Pojun learned that Lin Fei regarded immortals as ants and realized the Bai family had provoked a vastly greater being.
• Lin Fei revealed that he could resurrect Ji Yaoguang and said he had given Qing Mingyu a second life, leaving Bai Pojun devastated.
• Lin Fei killed Bai Pojun and destroyed the Sacrificial Ring, then accepted Ji Yaoguang's plea to spare Yao Xinyi.
• Lin Fei gave Yao Xinyi Qi Gathering Pills and handed Emperor Shun's Enci Bracelet and the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders to Wu Moling after Ji Yaoguang refused them.
• Yao Xinyi arranged a hotel stay and claimed only two rooms were available; Lin Fei told her to ask directly if she wanted to serve him in bed.

Lin Fei waited among the villa ruins as Dragon Hidden arrived to investigate the destruction and confronted him. After Lin Fei demonstrated his power and revealed his connection to Dragon Hidden’s lord, Chen Longxiang, the team’s suspicion gave way to shock.

• Lin Fei sent Yao Xinyi back to Kuncheng and told Ji Yaoguang and Wu Moling to find a hotel while he waited in the ruins.
• Dragon Hidden members arrived by helicopter, surrounded Lin Fei, and aimed their weapons at him.
• Lin Fei extinguished the searchlights and sent the Dragon Hidden members mental images of what had happened, easing their suspicions.
• When Hawkeye questioned him about sparing the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders, Lin Fei said he had subdued her and asked whether Little Chen had come.
• Lin Fei explained that he had helped Chen Longxiang establish Dragon Hidden, then told Hawkeye to call Chen and report that the matter was handled.
• After speaking with Chen Longxiang, Hawkeye turned back to Lin Fei in shock.

Lin Fei spoke with Chen Longxiang after defeating the Mother of Ten Thousand Spiders, then faced Bai Zhan, whose father Bai Pojun had died. Meanwhile, Datura suspected Lin Xinyu was alive and posted an astronomical bounty to find her.

• Chen Longxiang thanked Lin Fei for stopping the disaster in Rongcheng and ordered Dragon Hidden to withdraw.
• Hawkeye and the Dragon Hidden team left, marveling at Lin Fei's power as he remained seated among the ruins.
• Bai Zhan arrived, learned that Bai Pojun was dead, and knelt before Lin Fei in grief.
• Datura lamented the Dark Night Organization's failures and feared Lin Fei's continued interference.
• Datura recalled Nightmare's interest in preserving a flawless work of art and suspected the missing Lin Xinyu was the person Patriarch Wangliang sought.
• An astronomical bounty appeared on the dark web, featuring a photograph of a girl with a gardenia in her hair.

After Lin Fei declined the Qing family's offer of lodging and Qing Lixue's invitation to spend the day with him, he prepared to investigate Black Bamboo Valley. The next morning, the Bai family gathered outside his hotel to beg forgiveness, drawing a crowd and the media.

• Lin Fei declined Qing Fen's offer to stay at the Qing family villa and settled into a hotel instead.
• Qing Lixue thanked Lin Fei, apologized for once mistaking him for a charlatan, and invited him to spend the next day with her, but he refused because he planned to investigate Black Bamboo Valley.
• Qing Fen told Qing Mingyu to secure a new villa for Lin Fei at auction, whatever the cost.
• The next morning, Bai Zhan led members of the Bai family to the Grand Hyatt Chunxi Road, where they knelt with thorn rods to beg forgiveness.
• Reporters and spectators gathered outside Lin Fei's hotel, eager to see whom the Bai family had come to meet.

Lin Fei dismissed the Bai family's plea for forgiveness and left the hotel amid reporters' questions. He then told Ji Yaoguang and Wu Moling he was taking them to Black Bamboo Valley to help them reach the Grandmaster Realm.

• Bai Zhan and the Bai family knelt before Lin Fei and begged him to punish them for their sins.
• Lin Fei said the blame belonged to Bai Pojun and Bai Poju, forgave the rest of the family, and sent them home.
• Reporters crowded Lin Fei as he left, while Wu Moling kept them back and led Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang to the Bugatti Veyron.
• Lin Fei told Wu Moling to drive to Black Bamboo Valley, whose records described disappearances and deaths among those who entered.
• Lin Fei told Ji Yaoguang and Wu Moling he planned to help them reach the Grandmaster Realm.

Lin Fei invited Ji Yaoguang to travel with him to Black Bamboo Valley, and she happily accepted, treating the outing as a date. At the company, Han Enci learned they had left and later planned to win a mountain estate villa at auction so he could use it to woo Meng Xue.

• Lin Fei asked Ji Yaoguang to travel with him to Black Bamboo Valley, and she agreed after Wu Moling encouraged her.
• Wu Moling declined to accompany them, while Ji Yaoguang wondered if the trip would be her first date with a man.
• Wu Moling told Han Enci that Ji Yaoguang had gone on a trip with Lin Fei, and Han Enci accepted that he could not compete with Lin Fei.
• Meng Zhe called Han Enci about the mountain estate villa auction, and Han Enci invited him and his sister Meng Xue to attend.
• Han Enci planned to win the villa and use it to persuade Meng Xue to get together with him.

Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang explored Black Bamboo Valley, where Lin Fei identified an ancient cultivation ruin and found two groups nearby. They came upon ancient martial artists fighting Three-Eyed Azure-Tailed Wolves, and Lin Fei left their fate uncertain as Steward Wu attacked the pack’s alpha.

• Lin Fei sensed a powerful force across Black Bamboo Valley and identified it as the remains of an ancient sect’s formation.
• Lin Fei found two groups in the valley and led Ji Yaoguang toward the sound of wolves howling.
• Lin Fei identified the creatures surrounding a group of martial artists as Three-Eyed Azure-Tailed Wolves.
• Steward Wu charged through the wolf pack to attack its alpha while the other martial artists fought to survive.
• Ji Yaoguang asked Lin Fei to help the besieged group, but Lin Fei refused and remarked that they might not be good people.

Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang watched the Wu Family battle a wolf pack in Black Bamboo Valley, then Lin Fei identified how the group was resisting the miasma. The Wu Family suspected Ji Yaoguang had a protective treasure and proposed joining forces, but Lin Fei saw through Steward Wu’s plan to use them as cannon fodder.

• Ji Yaoguang asked how Lin Fei knew the newcomers were bad people, and Lin Fei recognized them as the Wu Family of Jinling from their surname, accents, and knowledge of Black Bamboo Valley.
• Steward Wu killed the alpha wolf with the Saber Sect technique Gale and Raging Fire, causing the remaining wolves to scatter.
• Steward Wu noticed Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang and challenged them for standing aside while the Wu Family fought.
• Lin Fei deduced that the Wu Family members used atractylodes to resist the valley’s miasma, and Steward Wu questioned how Ji Yaoguang remained unaffected without it.
• Steward Wu suggested that the group travel together, and Lin Fei bluntly accused him of wanting to use them as cannon fodder.

Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang joined Wu Mou's group as they traveled deeper into Black Bamboo Valley, where Lin Fei uncovered a hidden cultivator's cave. After triggering its Myriad Spirits Tribulation Killing Array, Lin Fei erased the array's engravings with a casual sweep of his hand.

• Lin Fei agreed to travel with Wu Mou's group, while Wu Mou secretly plotted to seize Ji Yaoguang's poison-immunity treasure and exploit them.
• As the group entered a region of dead, blackened trees and thicker miasma, Wu Mou noticed Lin Fei and Ji Yaoguang remained unaffected.
• Lin Fei broke open a rubble wall and revealed a cave abode, then entered it despite Wu Mou's warning.
• Lin Fei found Spirit Stones in the cave and broke one free, triggering the Myriad Spirits Tribulation Killing Array.
• The array attacked Lin Fei with blood-red killing lights, but he erased its engravings with a sweep of his hand.

Lin Fei found a few cultivation resources in the cave dwelling before triggering a flood of demonic qi. He pretended to be gravely injured, emerged alive, and drew Wu Mou’s attention to the Spirit Stones in his hand.

• Lin Fei collected low-grade Spirit Stones and gathered the surviving spirit bud grass and earth cloud grass, along with their spiritual soil.
• Lin Fei exposed the cave owner’s skeleton beneath the herb patch, triggering a collapse and releasing a vast cloud of demonic qi.
• Lin Fei breathed in the demonic qi and pretended it had badly injured him, then produced several Spirit Stones and said he would put on a show.
• Wu Mou and the others fled from the cave, convinced that Lin Fei had been killed by the demonic qi.
• Lin Fei emerged alive but feigning exhaustion, and Wu Mou stared intently at the Spirit Stones in his hand.

Lin Fei faked his death from demonic qi corruption to expose Wu Mou’s treachery and lure him into attacking. He effortlessly withstood Wu Mou’s saber strike, leaving Wu Mou shocked as Lin Fei declared that his saber had broken.

• Lin Fei pretended to die, convincing Ji Yaoguang and Wu Mou that the demonic qi had killed him.
• Wu Mou seized Lin Fei’s Spirit Stones and ordered his men to strip Ji Yaoguang to find her treasure.
• Lin Fei appeared behind Wu Mou and revealed that he was alive, then threatened to kill him.
• Wu Mou attacked Lin Fei with Gale and Raging Fire, but the strike rebounded as if against an iron wall.
• Lin Fei told Wu Mou that his saber had broken.

Lin Fei shattered Wu Mou’s saber and revealed that he had taught the Saber Emperor Yang Zhenbei, leaving Wu Mou terrified and kneeling. When Wu Mou tried to attack Ji Yaoguang, an unseen force hurled him into a mountainside, while Lin Fei remained beside her.

• Wu Mou discovered that his treasured saber had broken against Lin Fei’s forehead, though Lin Fei was unharmed.
• Lin Fei claimed that Yang Zhenbei and Jiang Liuyun had been his students, then showed Wu Mou a vision of himself teaching Yang Zhenbei a saber technique that split the sea.
• Wu Mou recognized Lin Fei’s role in Yang Zhenbei’s technique, lost his will to fight, and begged Lin Fei to spare his life.
• Ji Yaoguang returned to Lin Fei, and his unharmed appearance startled Wu Mou’s men.
• Wu Mou lunged at Ji Yaoguang when Lin Fei did not move, but an invisible force smashed him into the mountainside and shattered his Protective Gang Qi.

Lin Fei killed Wu Mou and his men, then asked Ji Yaoguang about camping as night fell. At an auction in Rongcheng, Han Enci tried to impress Meng Xue by bidding on a mountain villa estate, but another bidder raised the price to one hundred million.

• Lin Fei revealed that he had feigned weakness to expose Wu Mou and his men, then killed Wu Mou with a streak of dark light.
• Wu Mou's men fled, but Lin Fei crushed them into blood mist with a snap of his fingers.
• Lin Fei asked Ji Yaoguang whether she had ever camped in the wilderness as dusk fell.
• Han Enci arrived at the auction with Meng Zhe and Meng Xue, then embarrassed himself by choking on a cigar and setting his cape on fire.
• Han Enci bid seventy-five million for the mountain villa estate, but an unseen bidder offered one hundred million.

Qing Mingyu offered a hundred million for a mountainside villa estate to give to Lin Fei, silencing Han Enci when he learned who the gift was for. Meanwhile, Lin Fei guided Ji Yaoguang through rapid cultivation, and she reached the late body tempering stage in just two hours.

• Qing Mingyu bid a hundred million for the villa estate and confirmed he would not withdraw his offer.
• Han Enci challenged Qing Mingyu but backed down after learning the villa was for Lin Fei.
• The auction hall reacted with astonishment as the guests considered Lin Fei’s influence in Rongcheng and Western Shu Province.
• Lin Fei gave Ji Yaoguang the Spirit Stones and taught her the Yaoguang Immortal Art while guiding her cultivation.
• Ji Yaoguang reached the late body tempering stage in two hours and asked Lin Fei whether cultivation was always so simple.