Recaps

Chen Feng returned to the Soul-Locking Six Spirits Pillar and took it without resistance, revealing a hole filled with strange Spiritual Qi. Xue Bitian tried to use his death to pass that Qi to Chen Feng and possess him, but Chen Feng uncovered the scheme and destroyed his Divine Soul before fleeing with Zhengjiao.

• Chen Feng returned to the pillar with Zhengjiao, and the pillar entered his storage ring without resisting.
• Chen Feng noticed the hole and strange Spiritual Qi beneath the pillar, then agreed to Xue Bitian's request to kill him in exchange for the location of his cave abode.
• Chen Feng sent Zhengjiao to kill Xue Bitian, but Xue Bitian's Divine Soul rushed toward Chen Feng as the strange Spiritual Qi spread toward Zhengjiao.
• Chen Feng's Great Expansion Divine Art blocked Xue Bitian's possession attempt, and Chen Feng captured his Divine Soul and used the Soul Search Technique to destroy it.
• Chen Feng learned that Xue Bitian had planned to pass the parasitic Spiritual Qi to his killer and escape, then saw that the Qi could not approach Zhengjiao.
• Chen Feng and Zhengjiao fled as the strange Spiritual Qi began drifting toward Chen Feng.

Chen Feng left Falling Rosy Clouds Valley, sent information about Chang Shan’s death to the Expansion Divine Sect, and set out for the Outer Sea with Zhengjiao. In the Storm Sea Region, Ge Yunxuan’s Aerospace Carriers encountered an approaching vessel, and he ordered a nuclear missile strike before identifying it.

• Chen Feng questioned Zhengjiao about its Soul Devouring Divine Ability and decided to delay claiming the Demon Beast souls until they reached the Outer Sea.
• Chen Feng sent a Jade Slip to Starry Night City reporting that the He Household patriarch had caused Chang Shan’s death, prompting an Expansion Divine Sect elder to leave for the sect.
• Chen Feng told Zuo Poxing to avoid the He Household and not disturb him during his long seclusion, then departed for the Storm Sea Region with Zhengjiao.
• Ge Yunxuan led three Xingfeng Sect Aerospace Carriers through the Storm Sea Region toward the Inner Sea, accompanied by Zhang Jin.
• After the carriers’ radar detected an unidentified vessel approaching, Ge Yunxuan ordered his crew to attack with nuclear missiles.

Ge Yunxuan and Zhang Jin confronted Shi Lang of the Expansion Divine Sect, who destroyed their carrier’s shield and injured them while demanding to know why the Xingfeng Sect had entered the Inner Sea. Just as Ge Yunxuan prepared to fight back, a silver-haired young man arrived on the back of a Nascent Soul Great Perfection Demon Beast.

• Ge Yunxuan ordered the Aerospace Carriers into battle formation after their target vanished from radar, then reappeared thirty kilometers away.
• Shi Lang’s Expansion Divine Sect dharma ship approached, and he demanded that Ge Yunxuan come aboard to answer for the Xingfeng Sect’s presence in the Inner Sea.
• Shi Lang broke the Aerospace Carrier’s shield, swept Ge Yunxuan and Zhang Jin onto his ship, and injured them in the Storm Sea winds.
• Shi Lang crushed Ge Yunxuan’s headset and demanded an explanation, while Zhang Jin challenged him and was forced to his knees by Shi Lang’s Spiritual Power.
• A terrifying Divine Sense swept over the ships, and a Nascent Soul Great Perfection Demon Beast appeared with a silver-haired young man standing on its back.
• Ge Yunxuan and Zhang Jin recognized the silver-haired young man, while Shi Lang and the others stared at his powerful arrival.

Chen Feng rescued Ge Yunxuan and Zhang Jin after Shi Lang of the Expansion Divine Sect injured them, then killed the sect’s cultivators and sent the five Demon Beasts after Shi Lang. After giving Ge Yunxuan a Pseudo Spirit Treasure and arranging a secret escort for the carriers, Chen Feng continued toward the Outer Sea with Zhengjiao.

• Chen Feng arrived on Zhengjiao’s back, and Ge Yunxuan identified him as the Xingfeng Sect’s sect master to the gathered cultivators.
• Chen Feng ordered Zhengjiao to attack, and Zhengjiao’s roar killed the Law Boat’s weaker cultivators while Chen Feng stabilized Zhang Jin’s Golden Core and gave both injured men pills.
• Chen Feng killed a Golden Core cultivator who tried to send a warning, while Shi Lang fled using Divine Travel Talismans.
• The Blazing Flame Lion and the other four Demon Beasts caught Shi Lang and killed him, while Zhengjiao destroyed the Expansion Divine Sect’s Law Boat and devoured the surviving Divine Souls.
• Chen Feng gave Ge Yunxuan a Pseudo Spirit Treasure, sent the carriers toward the Inner Sea, and ordered a Demon Beast to escort them secretly before continuing toward the Outer Sea.

Chen Feng returned to the Outer Sea, learned from Shi Lang’s memories that the Expansion Divine Sect was preparing for a prolonged war with Moon-Gazing City, and checked on the Xingfeng Sect. He then learned that Yinyin had disappeared in the Black Abyss and rushed there with Zhengjiao.

• Chen Feng emerged from the Storm Sea Region without a dharma ship, startling a group of Boundary Sea Region cultivators who believed he was a Nascent Soul True Lord.
• Chen Feng searched Shi Lang’s Divine Soul, learned about the Expansion Divine Sect’s strength and plans, and concluded that its war with Moon-Gazing City would continue.
• Expansion Divine Sect cultivators blamed Moon-Gazing City for Shi Lang’s death and set out to attack its cultivators in the Storm Sea Region, while True Lord Kongyou suspected the Xingfeng Sect.
• Chen Feng contacted Liu Qian and learned that the Xingfeng Sect was doing well, but Yinyin had gone missing after heading to the Black Abyss.
• Chen Feng mounted Zhengjiao, who hurried at near full speed toward the Black Abyss to search for Yinyin.

Chen Feng and Zhengjiao entered the Black Abyss to search for Yinyin, but a monstrous presence and an enormous eye forced them to flee. They escaped believing Yinyin might still be alive, and Zhengjiao vowed to return after finding his main soul and reaching Spirit Transformation.

• Heijiao recognized Zhengjiao flying over the Black Sea and led the Black Sea Branch cultivators and Demon Beasts toward Chen Feng.
• Chen Feng and Zhengjiao descended into the Black Abyss, where their Divine Sense failed and a powerful suction slowed them.
• Chen Feng urged Zhengjiao to turn back, but a terrifying presence emerged from below and dragged them deeper despite their efforts to escape.
• The suction suddenly vanished near four thousand meters, allowing Chen Feng and Zhengjiao to flee after Chen Feng saw a gigantic eye staring at him.
• Zhengjiao apologized for acting impulsively, and Chen Feng suggested the being may have drawn Yinyin into the abyss for a purpose.
• Zhengjiao vowed to find his main soul and reach Spirit Transformation before investigating the Black Abyss again, as the Black Sea Branch arrived.

Chen Feng returned from the Black Abyss without finding Yinyin, sealed off the area, and approved Haili’s plan to send the Black Sea Demon Beasts out to gather resources. Back at the Xingfeng Sect, he arranged to expand mortal settlements and prepare supplies before returning to the modern world to trade goods between the two worlds.

• Haili and the Black Sea Branch leaders greeted Chen Feng and Zhengjiao, and Chen Feng ordered the Black Abyss sealed off while keeping what he had seen there to himself.
• Haili described the Black Sea Branch’s new bases and Demon Beast Legion, then asked permission to gather resources in the Outer Sea; Chen Feng agreed on the condition that the Demon Beasts avoid starting conflicts.
• Chen Feng and Zhengjiao returned to the Xingfeng Sect, where Liu Qian reported that Wang Hu was gathering mortals across Yingzhou and that statues of Chen Feng had been erected in mortal settlements.
• Chen Feng told Liu Qian to protect the mortals and use their labor at factories and mines, then collected the materials and factory goods prepared outside his secret chamber.
• Chen Feng activated the painting scroll’s portal and returned to the modern world with the Storage Bags of goods.

Chen Feng returned to the Golden Triangle and discovered that Lin Wei’s researchers had captured Qiefusi and were studying him and other evolved humans. Their research had led to a robot that could draw Spiritual Qi from an Artificial Spirit Aperture, and Chen Feng saw the potential for creating artificial cultivators.

• Chen Feng entered the biological research institute after hearing screams and found Tiya’s team experimenting on captured evolved humans, including Qiefusi.
• Tiya explained that Lin Wei had ordered the research, and Chen Feng told her to pause the work and brief him outside.
• Tiya reported that studying Qiefusi’s modified body had suggested ways to overcome the Artificial Spirit Aperture’s rejection by ordinary bodies, including implanting apertures in robots.
• Lin Wei joined Chen Feng, and he learned that Tuosen’s team had built and tested a robot with an Artificial Spirit Aperture.
• Tuosen demonstrated the robot drawing Spiritual Qi through its body, and Chen Feng concluded that it could become an artificial cultivator if it learned Law Techniques and how to use Spiritual Qi.

Chen Feng reviewed the Golden Triangle research institutes’ progress, approved new weapons and projects, and prepared to send Qiefusi and the others back to Eagle Sauce Country. Before leaving, he healed Jack and ordered him to obtain powered armor, while Jack wondered why Chen Feng had reacted so calmly to the attack on the manor.

• Chen Feng suggested programming simple spells into robots, and Lin Wei took Tuosen’s robot to study whether it could cast them.
• Chen Feng approved Spiritual Qi-enhanced ammunition and artillery, gave Tuosen space-based weapon data, and told Tiya to prepare the Artificial Spirit Aperture for mass production.
• Lin Wei briefed Chen Feng on the institutes’ progress, and Chen Feng approved support for Harvey’s vehicle projects and said he would release Qiefusi and the others.
• Chen Feng gave Lin Wei rare materials, then healed Jack’s Demon Power injuries and left him a list of supplies to procure.
• Chen Feng told Jack to get powered armor from Tuosen, and Jack began arranging Chen Feng’s requested supplies after his boss departed.

Qiefusi was rescued from the Golden Triangle by the Painting Civilization and returned to Eagle Sauce Country, where he stopped officials from launching a nuclear strike. The government canceled its plans against the Golden Triangle and agreed to supply the Painting Civilization with materials to create more evolved humans.

• The Painting Civilization rescued Qiefusi from the Golden Triangle and warned him that the rescue had exhausted its energy reserves.
• Chen Feng watched Qiefusi fly toward Eagle Sauce Country's capital, then headed back to Dragon Country.
• Eagle Sauce Country's officials debated launching nuclear missiles against the Golden Triangle because they feared retaliation from X and could not reach the Painting Civilization.
• Qiefusi entered the conference room, condemned the proposed nuclear strike, and said the Painting Civilization had rescued him.
• Paul suggested that an alien civilization might stand behind the Golden Triangle, and the speaker ordered the officials to cancel the strike and abandon investigations.
• Qiefusi said the Painting Civilization would create more evolved humans in exchange for nuclear and other scarce materials, and the speaker promised to gather supplies.

Chen Feng returned to Dragon Country, expanded Xingfeng Group’s plans, and investigated strange blue-glowing meteorites found on Mount Tai. After confirming they contained Spiritual Qi, he searched space for its source and worried that another powerful cultivator might be nearby.

• Chen Feng visited Li Xiaorou at Xingfeng Group, praised the group’s profits, and delivered more products while telling her to expand sales and stop limiting the cancer drug supply.
• Li Xiaorou told Chen Feng that Liu Mu had repeatedly been trying to reach him, so Chen Feng called Liu Mu and agreed to examine the meteorites found on Mount Tai.
• Chen Feng went to the sealed area on Mount Tai, sensed Spiritual Qi in a blue-glowing meteorite, and concluded it had not come from his earlier tribulation.
• Chen Feng flew through space and searched from Earth past the Moon, Venus, and the Sun, finding no other Spiritual Qi.
• Chen Feng headed toward Jupiter and considered whether Spiritual Qi was reviving in the Solar System or whether a powerful cultivator had left it behind.

Chen Feng investigated the violent Spiritual Qi that had appeared in Earth’s Solar System and suspected it had been brought there by his Lightning Tribulation. Back in the Painting Scroll World, he learned of an auction for the Stars Body-Refining Instruction and decided to attend despite suspecting a trap, then asked Zhengjiao about how Spiritual Qi formed in star regions.

• Chen Feng found Spiritual Qi-rich meteorites in space, identified their Spiritual Qi as violent, and suspected his previous tribulation had brought it into the Solar System.
• Chen Feng returned to the Painting Scroll World and reviewed Liu Qian’s report on the worsening war between the Expansion Divine Sect and Moon-Gazing City.
• Chen Feng learned that a cultivator had discovered the Stars Body-Refining Instruction and planned to auction it in two months.
• Chen Feng suspected the auction announcement was bait set by major factions, but decided to go because he needed the method’s later parts to reach Spirit Transformation.
• Chen Feng told Zhengjiao he would heal and cultivate before the auction, then asked him about the formation of Spiritual Qi in star regions.

After sensing the danger that the Solar System’s Spiritual Qi revival could attract cultivation factions, Chen Feng began preparing both the modern world and the Xingfeng Sect for conflict. He ordered large-scale training and production, then went to the nuclear factory to meet Yue Yao.

• Chen Feng learned from Zhengjiao that Spiritual Qi appearing in a dead star region could draw powerful factions, and decided to strengthen the modern world.
• After healing, Chen Feng mastered the first layer of the Great Expansion Divine Art, greatly strengthening his Divine Sense and Divine Soul.
• Chen Feng ordered Jack to train martial artists at scale and remove restrictions on pill sales, then obtained Lin Wei’s robot-cultivator blueprints and Tuosen’s space-based weapon plans.
• Chen Feng told Liu Qian to add at least five thousand factories in the Northern Border within a year and lift restrictions on weapon sales to raise funds.
• Chen Feng went to the Xingfeng Sect’s nuclear factory, where staff hurried to inform Deacon Yue Yao of his arrival.

Chen Feng ordered Yue Yao to increase Aerospace Carrier and Three-Phase Bomb production, then gave her blueprints for artificial cultivators, Artificial Spirit Apertures, and Spiritual Qi bullets. As mortals migrated toward the Northern Border, Heavenly Secrets Pavilion agents learned their scouts had been captured and decided to visit the Xingfeng Sect.

• Chen Feng toured the nuclear factory with Yue Yao and ordered Aerospace Carrier production to double and Three-Phase Bomb production to increase.
• Chen Feng gave Yue Yao blueprints for manufacturing artificial cultivators, Artificial Spirit Apertures, and Spiritual Qi bullets, along with a robot capable of using the Fireball Technique.
• Chen Feng collected a small amount of Power of Faith in the Northern Border and returned to the Xingfeng Sect before heading back to the Inner Sea.
• More than a hundred trucks carried mortals toward the Northern Border, where Xingfeng Sect members planned to arrange housing and factory work for them.
• Liu Si told Yue Qianshan that three Heavenly Secrets Pavilion scouts had been captured, and they decided to visit the Xingfeng Sect in the Northern Border.

Wang Hu drove Liu Si and Yue Qianshan out of Yingzhou after their attempt to investigate the Xingfeng Sect, while Chen Feng continued toward the Southern Region. Near Flint City, Chen Feng answered He Menghan’s plea for help as three Expansion Divine Sect cultivators threatened her.

• Liu Si and Yue Qianshan approached Yingzhou to investigate the Xingfeng Sect, but Wang Hu’s fleet surrounded them and ordered them to leave.
• When Liu Si demanded the release of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion’s detained people, Wang Hu refused, and his ships attacked the two envoys.
• Liu Si used a talisman to escape with Yue Qianshan, and Wang Hu chose not to pursue them, instead ordering stronger defenses along the Black Coast.
• Chen Feng read Liu Qian’s report while traveling through the Storm Sea Region, then reached the Southern Region and flew toward Flint City as fighting spread across the region.
• Three Expansion Divine Sect cultivators brought down He Menghan outside Flint City, and she called to Chen Feng for help; Chen Feng stopped and appeared before them.

Chen Feng saved He Menghan from the Expansion Divine Sect in exchange for the He Household’s hidden treasury, then learned that its missing ancestor might have been possessed by the evil fiend sealed in Falling Rosy Clouds Valley. He took He Menghan into his service at the Star-Breaking Cult, while Zhengjiao revealed that she had a Primal Yin Physique and urged Chen Feng to use it for cultivation.

• Fei Sheng identified himself as an Expansion Divine Sect deacon hunting the He Household, and Chen Feng agreed to protect He Menghan after she offered him the location of her treasury and the ancestor’s secret.
• Chen Feng gave Fei Sheng and the other Golden Core cultivators a Storage Bag of Spirit Stones and Law Treasures, and they accepted the bribe and left He Menghan in his care.
• He Menghan opened the He Household’s hidden treasury, and Chen Feng took its Spirit Stones, medicines, herbs, and treasures.
• He Menghan told Chen Feng that the Expansion Divine Sect had nearly wiped out the He Household and that its ancestor had changed after returning from Falling Rosy Clouds Valley, where she had seen him talking to himself.
• He Menghan offered her Divine Soul to Chen Feng, who assigned her to serve as an elder of the Star-Breaking Cult while concealing her identity.
• Zhengjiao told Chen Feng that He Menghan had a Primal Yin Physique and asked whether he would use it to improve his cultivation.

Chen Feng arrived in Flint City and punished Expansion Divine Sect cultivators for injuring Zuo Poxing and plundering the Star-Breaking Cult. After settling into the cult, he learned that the war between the Expansion Divine Sect and Moon-Gazing City had plunged the Southern Region into chaos.

• Chen Feng entered Flint City openly with He Menghan, drawing the attention of the Expansion Divine Sect and the Star-Breaking Cult.
• Zuo Poxing welcomed Chen Feng as the Star-Breaking Cult's patriarch, and a disciple revealed that the Expansion Divine Sect had injured Zuo Poxing while looting the cult's businesses.
• Chen Feng crushed the body of the Golden Core cultivator who had injured Zuo Poxing and forced Yue Zishan and the other Expansion Divine Sect cultivators to the ground.
• Chen Feng dismissed Zuo Poxing's concerns about retaliation and heard that the Star-Breaking Cult had become Flint City's dominant power.
• Zuo Poxing reported that the war between the Expansion Divine Sect and Moon-Gazing City had spread across the Southern Region, with cultivators, bandits, and rogue cultivators attacking and plundering amid widespread disorder.

Chen Feng learned that the Stars Body-Refining Instruction would be auctioned and decided to attend with Zuo Poxing and Elder Meng, while appointing He Menghan as a Star-Breaking Cult elder. Liu Qingqing of the Expansion Divine Sect challenged Chen Feng outside the cult, and their fight continued as he hid his mastery of the Great Expansion Divine Art.

• Elder Meng explained that the Stars Body-Refining Instruction could reach Spirit Transformation but required repeated Heavenly Tribulations and Star Energy, and Chen Feng chose to attend its auction with Zuo Poxing and Elder Meng.
• Chen Feng introduced He Menghan as a new elder of the Star-Breaking Cult, and its members welcomed her despite her ties to the He Household.
• Liu Qingqing arrived with Yue Zishan and other Expansion Divine Sect cultivators, and her voice briefly dazed everyone in the Star-Breaking Cult until Chen Feng's Divine Sense restored them.
• Liu Qingqing challenged Chen Feng to exchange moves, and their guqin attack and Fireball Technique clashed above Flint City while Zuo Poxing activated the cult's defensive formation.
• Liu Qingqing intensified her Divine Soul attack, but Chen Feng resisted it with the Great Expansion Divine Art and used Star Energy to hide his Divine Soul's red protective light.

Chen Feng defeated Liu Qingqing in a fight without revealing his full strength, prompting the Expansion Divine Sect to withdraw from Flint City and treat the Star-Breaking Cult respectfully. He then visited Ge Yunxuan’s hidden base in the Flowing Cloud Mountain Range, where they discussed protecting the base and launching satellites in the Inner Sea.

• Chen Feng broke free of Liu Qingqing’s zither music and overwhelmed her with Law Techniques, leading Liu Qingqing to concede that neither had used full strength.
• Liu Qingqing gave Chen Feng a voice transmission Jade Slip, ended the dispute, and ordered the Expansion Divine Sect to withdraw from Flint City and treat the Star-Breaking Cult courteously.
• News of Chen Feng’s battle with Liu Qingqing spread across the Southern Region, drawing attention to him and bringing Rogue Cultivators to Flint City to seek the Star-Breaking Cult’s protection.
• Chen Feng left Flint City for Ge Yunxuan’s base in the Flowing Cloud Mountain Range, where Ge Yunxuan and Zhang Jin welcomed him after identifying him through Taiyi’s reply.
• Chen Feng pointed out that the base needed a concealment formation and heard Ge Yunxuan’s concerns about launching satellites; he planned to conceal the satellites and keep the base separate from the Star-Breaking Cult.

Chen Feng and his companions arrived in Immortal Treasure City for an auction that had drawn cultivators from across the Southern Region. Outside the city, Gu Ran assembled ten Nascent Soul Cultivators and prepared a Space-Locking Grand Array to capture Chen Feng, while Qu Jing prepared to preside over the auction and reflected on how her dealings with the Xingfeng Sect had advanced her career.

• Elder Meng told Chen Feng that the auction would feature High Antiquity treasures and Cultivation Methods, while Chen suspected the Expansion Divine Sect and Moon-Gazing City had arranged an ambush outside the city.
• Chen Feng, Zuo Poxing, Elder Meng, and He Menghan checked into an inn; Chen gave Zuo Poxing's room to He Menghan, prompting Zuo Poxing to book another room.
• Gu Ran gathered nine Expansion Divine Sect Nascent Soul Cultivators, including Liu Qingqing and Yin Jiuming, and arranged for a sixth-tier Space-Locking Grand Array to prevent Chen Feng from teleporting.
• Three days later, Qu Jing told Elder Xie that the Xingfeng Sect had entrusted the Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce with selling Aerospace Carriers and weapons, and Elder Xie assigned her to preside over the auction.
• Qu Jing looked forward to joining the chamber's council of elders and remembered that meeting Chen Feng had begun her rise within the Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce.

At the Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce auction, Chen Feng arrived disguised as Hua Xuanzi and attracted the attention of the Expansion Divine Sect and Moon-Gazing City, both of which considered recruiting him. He began bidding on lots while waiting for the Stars Body-Refining Instruction, as He Menghan left to deliver information at his request.

• Clear Blaze Sect, Expansion Divine Sect, and Moon-Gazing City members gathered at the auction entrance, where Luo Qian mocked Liu Qingqing for losing to Hua Xuanzi.
• Zuo Poxing introduced Chen Feng as the Star-Breaking Cult's patriarch, and Chen Feng blocked Gu Ran's Divine Sense probe before Qu Jing led him to a private room.
• Liu Qingqing and Jiang Jiu each agreed to approach Chen Feng after the auction and see whether he could be recruited.
• Chen Feng told He Menghan to take information to Moon-Gazing City's private room, then instructed Zuo Poxing and Elder Meng to bid on the lots.
• Zuo Poxing won a bottle of six Origin-Nurturing Pills for 3,500 Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones while Chen Feng waited for the Stars Body-Refining Instruction.

At an auction, Chen Feng learned about the Great Zhou Imperial Dynasty when its masked princess outbid Moon-Gazing City and the Expansion Divine Sect for ten Aerospace Carriers. The auction ended with He Menghan warning Luo Qian that Nascent Soul Cultivators from the Expansion Divine Sect had gathered outside Immortal Treasure City.

• Chen Feng examined an unbreakable wooden sword, but Zhengjiao said he knew nothing about its origin or purpose.
• Qu Jing auctioned ten Aerospace Carriers, and bidders from the Clear Blaze Sect, Moon-Gazing City, and the Expansion Divine Sect competed for them.
• A masked woman from Great Zhou outbid Luo Qian and Liu Qingqing, revealed her dynasty’s identity, and won the carriers; she then ordered Elder Kong to send them to the Artifact Refining Pavilion for study.
• The woman told Elder Kong that they would travel to the Outer Sea if they received no news from Falling Rosy Clouds Valley.
• He Menghan entered Luo Qian’s box and warned him that many Expansion Divine Sect Nascent Soul Cultivators had appeared outside Immortal Treasure City.

Chen Feng used the rivalry between Moon-Gazing City and the Expansion Divine Sect to prepare an escape route, then won the auction for a rare Nascent Soul-Nurturing Pill. He had no Spirit Stones on hand to pay, so he sent the chamber of commerce a distinguished guest token, leaving the auction stalled as guards gathered outside his room.

• Luo Qian learned that Expansion Divine Sect cultivators had set up an ambush outside Immortal Treasure City and contacted his big brother while Chen Feng explained how he had identified the trap and planned to exploit the factions' conflict.
• Chen Feng bought a fifth-tier defensive and concealing formation for Ge Yunxuan and the others as the auction approached its finale.
• Elder Xie presented a Nascent Soul-Nurturing Pill, and the bidding climbed to 310,000 Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones before Chen Feng won it from private room nine.
• Yan Hong ordered an investigation into Chen Feng's identity after losing the pill, while several other Nascent Soul Cultivators also became interested in the buyer.
• When the chamber of commerce's maid asked for payment, Chen Feng handed her a distinguished guest token for Qu Jing, since he lacked the Spirit Stones and intended to settle the debt through his partnership with the chamber.
• The auction remained halted, the crowd speculated that Chen Feng could not pay, and Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce guards took positions outside private room nine.

At the auction, Chen Feng’s honored guest token persuaded the Immortal Treasure Chamber of Commerce to cover his 310,000 Supreme-Grade Spirit Stone bill, stunning the other bidders. The Great Zhou princess’s Seven-Colored Rabbit sensed a possible Innate Spirit Treasure in his room, while Chen Feng let Qu Jing visit him.

• Liu Qingqing urged Gu Ran to help Chen Feng, but Gu Ran refused and focused on the mysterious cultivator.
• When Chen Feng did not pay for the Nascent Soul-Nurturing Pill, Elder Xie exposed his identity as Hua Xuanzi, and Yan Hong mocked him before the crowd.
• After Qu Jing showed Elder Xie Chen Feng’s honored guest token, Elder Xie apologized and said the chamber would cover the Spirit Stones.
• Luo Qian decided to approach Chen Feng after the auction, while Gu Ran wondered whether Hua Xuanzi was the mysterious cultivator.
• Dabao, the Great Zhou princess’s Seven-Colored Rabbit, sensed a possible Innate Spirit Treasure in Chen Feng’s room, so the princess planned to meet him after the auction.
• Chen Feng declined to bid on the Tribulation-Resolving Great Technique and admitted Qu Jing, knowing she would recognize the token he had used to secure the chamber’s support.

Chen Feng used Hua Xuanzi’s identity at the auction, where Zhang Jin bought the Stars Body-Refining Instruction on Chen Feng’s behalf. After Chen Feng rejected Moon-Gazing City’s recruitment, the Expansion Divine Sect tried to seize Zhang Jin, but Immortal Treasure City’s elders intervened.

• Qu Jing recognized Hua Xuanzi’s honored guest token as connected to the Xingfeng Sect and agreed to extend him three hundred thousand Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones.
• Elder Xie introduced the Stars Body-Refining Instruction, and Zhang Jin bought it for sixty thousand Supreme-Grade Spirit Stones while Gu Ran watched for the mysterious cultivator.
• Chen Feng told Zhengjiao that Zhang Jin had bought the instruction for them, then rejected Luo Qian’s offer to make him a deputy commander of Moon-Gazing City.
• After the auction, Gu Ran and Liu Qingqing cornered Zhang Jin and Gu Ran tried to perform a Soul Search, but a Nascent Soul Late Stage elder from Immortal Treasure City stopped him.