Chapter Summaries

Feng Zhuo returned to the day he entered the Supreme One Divine Sect and resolved to avoid becoming Chixiao's disciple after learning that Su Ruanruan had manipulated events that led to his death in his previous life. He chose Carefree Peak as his safest path, then faced Su Ruanruan's first attempt to portray him as cruel.

• Feng Zhuo discovered he had returned to age twelve and tested as having a Heavenly Wood Spirit Root, a Wood Spirit Body, and highest-grade aptitude.
• Feng Zhuo recalled how Chixiao and Su Ruanruan had schemed to take his Glazed Purifying Fire, causing his death, and vowed to seek retribution.
• Feng Zhuo decided to join Carefree Peak because its members had opposed Su Ruanruan and were not favored by her.
• Su Ruanruan offered Feng Zhuo a Rejuvenation Pill, but he took his own supreme-grade pills instead.
• Su Ruanruan accused Feng Zhuo of humiliating her, prompting the surrounding disciples to question his behavior.

After rebirth, Feng Zhuo rejected Su Ruanruan’s manipulative gesture and tried to avoid becoming Primordial Lord Chixiao’s disciple. Chixiao chose Su Ruanruan and another youth, leaving Lingxiaozi to consider who could take Feng Zhuo as a master.

• Feng Zhuo confronted Su Ruanruan over her low-grade pills, called them filthy, and watched her flee.
• The senior brother led Feng Zhuo and the seven other youths to meet the sect’s Peak Masters after the Root Bone test.
• Chixiao used a secret exchange involving Origin Returning Pills to claim the first choice of disciples and invited Su Ruanruan to join Pill Peak.
• Su Ruanruan implied that Feng Zhuo had told her his Heavenly Wood Spirit Root and Wood Spirit Body made him a better alchemy candidate, prompting Chixiao to question him.
• Chixiao mocked Feng Zhuo’s Feng Household background, then took Su Ruanruan and another disciple with dual wood and fire Spirit Roots.
• Feng Zhuo revealed that his mother was Feng Qingge, and Lingxiaozi began considering how to find him a suitable master.

Feng Zhuo accepted Yunxiaozi as his master after Lingxiaozi offered him Primordial Spirit Spring, and Yunxiaozi negotiated a larger annual allowance for him. As Yunxiaozi took his exhausted new disciple back to Carefree Peak, Feng Zhuo fainted in his arms.

• Lingxiaozi offered Feng Zhuo a place as Yunxiaozi's personal disciple and promised him Primordial Spirit Spring each year.
• Lingxiaozi explained the spring's benefits, including cleansing impurities and improving Divine Sense, and Feng Zhuo realized why Su Ruanruan's pill arts had advanced so quickly.
• Yunxiaozi arrived, agreed to take Feng Zhuo as his disciple, and negotiated five drops of Primordial Spirit Spring per year.
• Feng Zhuo served tea to the Peak Masters, received twenty drops of Primordial Spirit Spring from Lingxiaozi and gifts from the other Peak Masters, then asked Yunxiaozi to take him away.
• Yunxiaozi led Feng Zhuo toward Carefree Peak, and Feng Zhuo collapsed from exhaustion into his new master's arms.

Feng Zhuo awakened the innate spirit flame hidden within him, and it raised his cultivation from the tenth to the eleventh level of Qi Refining. He left his new sect's residence in ruins, while Yunxiaozi blamed Feng Qingge and Qingyangzi for the damage.

• Feng Zhuo heard Ling Shuanghua, Yunxiaozi, Ye Wuhen, and Cang Wuya talking as he lay unconscious.
• Feng Zhuo recognized a crimson flame in his consciousness and realized he might be able to awaken his innate spirit flame.
• The spirit flame transformed into a firebird, flew into Feng Zhuo's brow, and engulfed him without causing pain.
• Yunxiaozi and Ling Shuanghua tried to extinguish the fire by pouring buckets of water over the house, while Cang Wuya returned to sword practice.
• The house was reduced to broken bricks and tiles, and Feng Zhuo woke having advanced from the tenth to the eleventh level of Qi Refining.
• Yunxiaozi set up a Spirit Gathering Formation and threatened Ling Shuanghua over his stolen beggar's chicken, while Cang Wuya hid the evidence.

Feng Zhuo reunited with his parents and chose to feed the Glazed Purifying Fire to his awakened life-bound spirit fire rather than contract it. The firebird devoured the flame, advanced, and helped Feng Zhuo reach Qi Refining Great Perfection.

• Feng Qingge and Qingyangzi visited Feng Zhuo after his spirit fire awakened, and Feng Qingge embraced him while Yunxiaozi complained that the fire had damaged his house.
• Feng Yao emerged as a fire phoenix and nearly set Yunxiaozi's wooden house ablaze before Feng Qingge called it back.
• Feng Qingge offered Feng Zhuo the fourth-tier Glazed Purifying Fire, which she had planned for him to contract.
• Feng Zhuo asked Feng Qingge to erase the Glazed Purifying Fire's spiritual awareness so Feng Yao could consume it as a fire seed.
• Feng Yao devoured the Glazed Purifying Fire, gained icy traits, and advanced; Feng Zhuo's cultivation rose to Qi Refining Great Perfection.

Feng Zhuo settled into life on Carefree Peak, where his senior siblings welcomed him with teasing, food, and gifts. After preparing his new cave abode, he began studying the Feng Household’s secret cultivation method, the Nirvana Heaven-Burning Instruction.

• Ling Shuanghua and Ye Wuhen introduced Carefree Peak’s residents, while Cang Wuya’s recordings exposed Ling Shuanghua’s favoritism and stories.
• Ling Shuanghua took Feng Zhuo to eat Ye Wuhen’s beggar’s chicken, and Ye Wuhen quietly made sure he got extra food as Ling Shuanghua and Cang Wuya chased each other.
• Feng Zhuo felt that Carefree Peak might finally be a place where he belonged.
• Feng Zhuo settled into his cave abode, surrounded by gifts from his senior siblings and the other peaks’ Peak Masters.
• Feng Zhuo placed the jade talisman containing the Nirvana Heaven-Burning Instruction against his forehead to study the Feng Household’s secret cultivation method.

Feng Zhuo mastered the first level of the Nirvana Heaven-Burning Instruction by tempering his meridians with spirit fire and healing them with Everlasting Spring spiritual power. After agreeing to attend an upcoming auction and preparing for the Azure Wood Illusory Forest Secret Realm, he stunned his fellow disciples with a trove of supreme-grade pills.

• Feng Zhuo combined the Everlasting Spring Scripture with the Nirvana Heaven-Burning Instruction, then repeatedly burned and healed his meridians until he mastered Spirit Fire Body Tempering.
• Feng Zhuo received messages from Ling Shuanghua, Ye Wuhen, and his mother, agreed to join the auction, and resolved to protect his master and fellow disciples from the tragic fate he remembered.
• Feng Zhuo prepared pills for the Azure Wood Illusory Forest Secret Realm, where he planned to take Su Ruanruan's spirit-cleansing herb and search for a Spirit Plant.
• Ling Shuanghua brought Ye Wuhen and Cang Wuya to Feng Zhuo's cave abode, where he gave them bottles of supreme-grade pills he had refined.
• Ling Shuanghua claimed Feng Zhuo as their future pill refiner and told Ye Wuhen to bring out their saved spirit medicines.

Feng Zhuo and Cang Wuya explored the market at the foot of Heavenly Pillar Mountain before coming upon Su Ruanruan arguing with Yun Li and Liu Yiyi over a strange stone. Feng Zhuo suspected the stone was the white tiger egg from his previous life, while Yun Li left after Su Ruanruan and her senior brothers made her look unreasonable.

• Ling Shuanghua left Feng Zhuo and Cang Wuya to explore while she and Ye Wuhen went to take care of something.
• Cang Wuya showed Feng Zhuo around the market, and Feng Zhuo pulled him toward a commotion after recognizing Su Ruanruan's voice.
• Feng Zhuo found Su Ruanruan arguing with Yun Li and Liu Yiyi over a dull gray stone, with Hua Zhaoye and Bai Wuxia backing Su Ruanruan.
• Feng Zhuo noticed that the stone resembled a Demon Beast egg and wondered whether it was the white tiger Su Ruanruan had contracted in his previous life.
• Su Ruanruan claimed she would give Yun Li the stone, while Hua Zhaoye and Bai Wuxia supported her and an onlooker mocked Yun Li.
• Yun Li, angered by the scene and its effect on Heaven-Soaring Peak's reputation, grabbed Liu Yiyi and left.

Feng Zhuo helped Yun Li expose Su Ruanruan’s lie about who had first chosen the stone, and Su fled after the stall owner testified. Yun Li offered Feng Zhuo the larger stone in gratitude, and he wondered whether it might conceal a Demon Beast egg.

• Feng Zhuo stopped Yun Li from leaving and asked Cang Wuya to bring back the stall owner who had sold the stones.
• The stall owner testified that Yun Li had chosen the smaller stone first and agreed on a price with him.
• Hua Zhaoye threatened the stall owner, but Feng Zhuo, Cang Wuya, and Yun Li protected him and warned Crimson Firmament Peak against retaliation.
• Su Ruanruan dropped the stone, admitted she had been confused, and fled as the crowd jeered; Bai Wuxia chased after her.
• Cang Wuya arranged for the stall owner to be escorted away, then asked Feng Zhuo whether he liked Yun Li; Feng Zhuo denied it.
• Yun Li offered Feng Zhuo the larger stone as thanks, and Feng Zhuo suggested it might be a Demon Beast egg in disguise.

Feng Zhuo joined Carefree Peak and learned about its long-running conflict with Crimson Firmament Peak. After Cang Wuya agreed to limit their sword practice, Feng Zhuo told his senior siblings about his clash with Su Ruanruan, and Ling Shuanghua welcomed the chance to oppose her rivals.

• Feng Zhuo warned Cang Wuya about Su Ruanruan, but Cang Wuya insisted they would practice swordsmanship together each morning.
• Ling Shuanghua and Ye Wuhen helped Feng Zhuo negotiate sword practice down to five mornings every ten days.
• At the Azure Cloud Pavilion, Hua Zhaoye saw Cang Wuya's black token beside his own red token and left without greeting them.
• Ling Shuanghua told Feng Zhuo how Crimson Firmament Peak had refused to help Yunxiaozi, then tried to evade a wager after Cang Wuya defeated Hua Zhaoye.
• Feng Zhuo recounted his conflict with Su Ruanruan, and Ling Shuanghua urged him to bring her along next time.

Feng Zhuo and his companions attended the Azure Cloud Pavilion auction, where he bought rare materials and learned that the final item was a Dark Nether Sword Token. Knowing the token could lead Cang Wuya to the divine sword and that Su Ruanruan would later target him for it, Feng Zhuo resolved not to let fear of her keep his junior senior brother from pursuing the opportunity.

• Xuanweizi, a Spirit Transformation Realm cultivator, opened the auction, and Gu Qinghuan introduced the items.
• Feng Zhuo bought soul-nourishing wood and rare medicinal herbs while Cang Wuya collected sword-forging materials; Feng Zhuo also countered Su Ruanruan and her companions when they tried to drive up his bids.
• Gu Qinghuan presented a Dark Nether Sword Token as the final item, startling Feng Zhuo and his three companions.
• Feng Zhuo learned that the token granted entry to the Dark Mystery Sword Tomb and remembered that Su Ruanruan would later obtain a divine sword after Cang Wuya's bone was gouged out.
• Feng Zhuo offered Cang Wuya his Spirit Stones and decided he would not urge his junior senior brother to give up the chance to enter the secret realm.

Cang Wuya won the Dark Nether Sword Token for 180 million high-grade Spirit Stones, while Su Ruanruan plotted to get Chu Yunfei to help her claim it. Her attempt to visit Chu Yunfei exposed growing distrust among her senior brothers, and Hua Zhaoye decided to keep his distance from her.

• Cang Wuya outbid the occupants of rooms A5 and A8 with a final offer of 180 million high-grade Spirit Stones and won the Dark Nether Sword Token.
• Feng Zhuo congratulated Cang Wuya, who was summoned with his companions to the pavilion’s top floor to collect the token and their purchases.
• Su Ruanruan recognized Chu Yunfei’s voice in room A5 and planned to tell him where the token had gone so he could force its owners to hand it over.
• Su Ruanruan persuaded Bai Wuxia to accompany her to find Chu Yunfei, but Hua Zhaoye declined and prepared to return to the sect.
• Hua Zhaoye left after Su Ruanruan framed his departure as a failure to support her, and he resolved to keep his distance from her.

Feng Zhuo and Cang Wuya met Azure Cloud Pavilion master Qing Xuan, who asked for help using the Feng Household’s Nirvana Divine Fire to cure his poison. Qing Xuan gave Feng Zhuo a Yi Wood Broken Branch and entrusted the pair to Xuanweizi for a safe return, while Feng Zhuo realized Qing Xuan was the rumored young master of the Azure Cloud Chamber of Commerce.

• Qing Xuan summoned Feng Zhuo and Cang Wuya, asked about Feng Qingge, and explained that a sinister poison had crippled his legs.
• Qing Xuan requested an introduction to the Feng Household cultivator who could use Nirvana Divine Fire to expel the poison, and Feng Zhuo gave him a jade token for his mother.
• Qing Xuan offered Feng Zhuo a Yi Wood Broken Branch, and Feng Zhuo accepted it while wondering how this life’s changes would affect the Dark Nether Sword Token’s future.
• Qing Xuan handed the Dark Nether Sword Token to Cang Wuya and prepared to leave for Phoenix Roost City.
• Qing Xuan ordered Xuanweizi to escort Feng Zhuo and Cang Wuya safely back to the Supreme One Divine Sect, and Feng Zhuo recognized Qing Xuan as the Azure Cloud Chamber of Commerce’s young master.

Feng Zhuo and Cang Wuya were stopped by Chu Yunfei and Su Ruanruan, who demanded the Dark Nether Sword Token, but Feng Zhuo denied owning it while Xuanweizi’s presence kept Chu Yunfei from using force. Su Ruanruan realized the auction’s events had diverged from the original plot, and the chapter left her blaming Feng Zhuo for changing her expected opportunities.

• Feng Zhuo and Cang Wuya met Chu Yunfei and Su Ruanruan on the road back to the sect, where Chu Yunfei asked them to hand over the Dark Nether Sword Token.
• Feng Zhuo denied buying the token and pretended not to know that Xuanweizi had been following them as a Spirit Transformation protector.
• Chu Yunfei held back from attacking after realizing Xuanweizi was present, while Su Ruanruan insisted she had seen the pair with the token at the auction.
• Su Ruanruan recalled that the original plot had Feng Zhuo buying a broken Yi Wood branch, but the auction had instead featured the Dark Nether Sword Token.
• Su Ruanruan blamed Feng Zhuo for disrupting the plot and losing her chance at the Yi Wood and the white tiger divine beast.

Chu Yunfei tried to pressure Feng Zhuo and his junior brother into handing over the Dark Nether Sword Token, but Yunxiaozi and others arrived and defended the Carefree Peak disciples. Chu Yunfei left for the sect, intent on explaining himself to his master, while Su Ruanruan quietly urged him to retaliate against Feng Zhuo and his companions.

• Chu Yunfei threatened Feng Zhuo and his junior brother, demanding the Dark Nether Sword Token in exchange for protection.
• Feng Zhuo refused, saying they did not have the token and would not surrender a cultivation opportunity even if they did.
• Yunxiaozi, Ling Shuanghua, Ye Wuhen, and Cang Wuya arrived, and Yunxiaozi condemned Chu Yunfei for threatening his disciples.
• Chu Yunfei apologized after learning Feng Zhuo and his junior brother were Yunxiaozi's personal disciples, but Feng Zhuo and Ling Shuanghua mocked his shifting claims.
• Chu Yunfei left for the sect, worried Yunxiaozi would report his behavior to Lingxiaozi, while Su Ruanruan urged him to teach the Carefree Peak disciples a lesson.

Feng Zhuo revived a Yi Wood branch, but the Everlasting Spring Scripture drained it away and nearly killed him. He woke to find the Scripture had advanced, his outlook on fate changed, and a crimson beast had hatched from Yun Li’s pebble and become his bonded contract.

• Feng Zhuo used the Everlasting Spring Scripture to revive a Yi Wood branch, but the method continued circulating and consumed the bud’s life force until the branch crumbled to dust.
• Feng Zhuo tried to stop the Scripture by forcing spirit fire through his meridians, but it kept circulating, repaired the damage, and left him unconscious.
• Yun Li’s pebble transformed into a fiery egg, which hatched into a little crimson beast while Feng Zhuo was unconscious.
• Feng Zhuo awoke, confirmed the Yi Wood was gone, and learned the Scripture had reached its second layer and could restore his Yi Wood Sacred Physique if he gathered enough wood Qi.
• Feng Zhuo accepted that his fate was uncertain and that his conflict with Su Ruanruan could end in either of their deaths.
• Feng Zhuo discovered his bonded contract with the little beast and transferred his spiritual power to it, while the newly hatched beast welcomed the energy as a path to becoming a third-tier Calamity Beast.

Feng Zhuo subdued Yanba, a newly hatched Calamity Beast with Nüba’s bloodline, and used Spirit-Feeding Pills to secure his obedience and keep him away from a white tiger. Months later, Feng Zhuo practiced swordsmanship with Cang Wuya, who prepared to enter seclusion before the Green Wood Illusion Forest secret realm, while Yanba ended up sprawled on the mountain path with a captured spirit bird.

• Yanba boasted of his Calamity Beast bloodline after establishing a Life-Bound Contract with Feng Zhuo, but Feng Zhuo burned him until he accepted Feng Zhuo as his master.
• Yanba confessed that a white tiger from the same stall had encouraged him to bully human cultivators, and Feng Zhuo ordered him to stay away from it in exchange for Spirit-Feeding Pills.
• Feng Zhuo and Cang Wuya practiced swordsmanship on a misty cliff, where Cang Wuya corrected Feng Zhuo’s openings and demonstrated a sword technique.
• Cang Wuya gave Feng Zhuo the Azure Wood Nine Tribulations Sword before announcing he would enter seclusion to break through to Foundation Establishment.
• Feng Zhuo and Cang Wuya turned toward a noise and found Yanba lying on the path with a large spirit bird in his mouth and tangled vines around his tails.

After Heaven-Soaring Peak’s disciples harassed Carefree Peak over Chu Yunfei, Feng Zhuo continued training and concealed his advancing spirit fire while beginning to refine tier-three pills. He successfully made Golden Core Formation Pills for Yun Yao and his senior siblings, and Ling Shuanghua promised to help him obtain more flames.

• Yunxiaozi confronted Lingxiaozi over Chu Yunfei’s ambush, and his sword strike split the clouds and peak at Heaven-Soaring Peak.
• Heaven-Soaring Peak disciples repeatedly provoked Carefree Peak, until Yanba drove intruders away and guarded the mountain gate.
• Yun Yao asked Feng Zhuo to refine Golden Core Formation Pills, and Feng Zhuo accepted her materials and payment.
• Feng Zhuo refined two pills on his first attempt, then produced high-grade pills and two supreme-grade pills in later attempts.
• Feng Zhuo gave Ling Shuanghua three high-grade pills for Yun Yao and two supreme-grade pills for his senior siblings; Ling Shuanghua offered to steal Yunxiaozi’s Divergent Flame for him.

On the eve of the Azure Wood Illusory Forest Secret Realm, Feng Zhuo received a Divergent Flame and other supplies from his master and fellow disciples. Determined to protect Carefree Peak from the fate he remembered, he headed toward the secret realm and passed disciples praising other young geniuses.

• Yunxiaozi teased Feng Zhuo about stealing the Divergent Flame, then gave him the flame, a talisman bearing sealed sword intent, Primordial Spirit Spring, and Spirit Stones.
• Feng Zhuo resolved to obtain the Nine-Turn Nirvana Pill in the future and prevent the demon venerable Li Tianxing from killing Yunxiaozi.
• Ling Shuanghua gave Feng Zhuo thunderstrike orbs from Eldest Senior Brother, Sword Qi talismans from Junior Brother Cang, and Spirit Stones she had earned from missions.
• Feng Zhuo inspected the gifts as Yanba carried him away, touched by his master's and fellow disciples' care and determined to protect them.
• Feng Zhuo arrived at Heaven-Soaring Peak and overheard disciples comparing the talents of Yun Li, Bai Wuxia, and Su Ruanruan as he walked past them.

Feng Zhuo exposed a disciple’s false rumor that Carefree Peak had seized the Dark Nether Sword Token from Chu Yunfei, then joined the group heading into the Green Wood Illusion Forest. He left with Yushang keeping Chu Yunfei occupied and Yanba eager to help him and his junior brother settle their grudge.

• Feng Zhuo confronted a disciple who claimed Carefree Peak had used connections to take the Dark Nether Sword Token from Chu Yunfei, and showed auction evidence disproving the story.
• Feng Zhuo restrained the slanderous disciple and sent him, along with an image-recording jade, to the Law Enforcement Hall for punishment.
• Feng Zhuo joined the Supreme One Divine Sect’s group preparing to enter the Green Wood Illusion Forest and greeted Yushang, who asked after Ling Shuanghua.
• Yushang blocked Chu Yunfei from approaching Feng Zhuo by asking him for advice about leading the secret-realm group.
• Yanba learned that Chu Yunfei had sent people to bother Feng Zhuo, then eagerly agreed to help Feng Zhuo and his junior brother confront him once Feng Zhuo reached Foundation Establishment.