Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan killed the Blood Blade Chief and Mad Bear Chief in a brief clash, then demanded the Black Wasteland Alliance leadership for the Fire Crow Tribe. Wolfslaughter answered by unleashing his Half-Step Eighth-Order power and summoning a gigantic blood-wolf phantom.

• The Blood Blade Chief and Mad Bear Chief attacked Chen Fan together, but he cut the Blood Blade Chief in half and crushed the Mad Bear Chief with a punch.
• Chen Fan challenged the gathered tribal chiefs, and they lowered their heads rather than meet his gaze.
• Chen Fan demanded that the Fire Crow Tribe take the Black Wasteland Alliance leader’s position and asked who opposed him.
• Wolfslaughter laughed, unleashed his baleful aura, and summoned a towering three-eyed blood-wolf phantom that shook the Sunset Mountains.

Chen Fan challenged Wolfslaughter for control of the alliance and defeated the Half-Step Eighth-Order leader in a brutal fight. Wolfslaughter survived but lay battered and terrified before Chen Fan, while the tribal leaders watched in stunned silence.

• Wolfslaughter pressured the tribal leaders and rejected Chen Fan's claim to the alliance leadership.
• Chen Fan mocked Wolfslaughter and declared that strength would decide who ruled the Great Wilderness.
• Wolfslaughter attacked with his bone blade, but Chen Fan combined his Fire Crow and Blackwater Totems to withstand the blow and chip the blade.
• Chen Fan shattered Wolfslaughter's blood-red shield with a punch and sent him crashing through pillars into the rock wall.
• Wolfslaughter crawled from the rubble defeated, and Chen Fan mocked him as the tribal leaders stared in shock.

Chen Fan forced the Black Wasteland tribes to recognize the Fire Crow Tribe as their leader and pay a heavy resource levy. He returned to the Fire Crow Old Stronghold with the supplies, where the tribe celebrated and he reunited with his relieved mother.

• Chen Fan claimed leadership of the Black Wasteland Alliance, and more than thirty tribal chiefs bowed to him.
• Chen Fan ordered each tribe to pay thirty percent of its spirit stones, high-grade beast cores, spirit grain, and medicinal herbs within three days, then had them sign blood contracts.
• The tribes delivered carts of resources to Blackstone Mountain, and Chen Fan led the Fire Crow cavalry and supply caravan back to the Fire Crow Old Stronghold.
• Chen Fan distributed Blood-Nourishing Herbs and spirit grain to the injured and elderly, telling the tribe they would no longer be short of food.
• Chen Fan entered his mother's stone house, and she saw that he had returned unharmed.

After three months of secluded cultivation, Chen Fan reached Peak Seventh Rank and emerged to find the fatty and several Fire Crow Tribe miners badly beaten. The fatty begged Chen Fan for help and said the trouble had started at Blackstone Mountain.

• Chen Fan returned home, gave his mother a Red Spirit Fruit, and shared venison soup with her.
• Chen Fan entered a mountain cave and absorbed spirit stones and beast cores for three months to strengthen his body and advance his cultivation.
• Chen Fan broke through to Peak Seventh Rank, then left the sealed cave and headed back to the settlement.
• Chen Fan heard cries from the Council Hall and found the fatty and several Fire Crow Tribe miners bruised and bloodied.
• The fatty crawled to Chen Fan and said he would have died at Blackstone Mountain if Chen Fan had stayed in seclusion; Chen Fan asked how he had been beaten.

After learning that Profound Nether Main City’s caravan had beaten and robbed the Fire Crow Tribe’s miners, Chen Fan went to Blackstone Mountain with the injured priest to collect a debt. He arrived at the occupied mine, where Duan Heavenly Wolf mocked him, and the confrontation was left to begin.

• The short, fat priest told Chen Fan that Profound Nether Main City’s guards had beaten the miners, stolen their ore, and seized Blackstone Mountain’s main mine.
• Chen Fan gave the priest a Seventh-Rank Bone-Mending Resurrection Pill and set out with him, saying they would collect a debt without bringing the tribe’s warriors.
• At the mine, Duan Heavenly Wolf’s guards drank and feasted while Fire Crow Tribe miners hung injured at the entrance.
• Duan Heavenly Wolf threatened to destroy the Fire Crow stronghold and enslave its people if they resisted.
• Chen Fan arrived with the priest, and Duan Heavenly Wolf laughed and mocked him as a young brat.

Chen Fan confronted Duan Heavenly Wolf at the mining camp after learning Duan had broken the priest’s ribs. Chen Fan revealed peak Seventh Rank strength, killed Duan with one punch, and sent the surviving guards fleeing.

• Duan Heavenly Wolf demanded that Chen Fan surrender Blackstone Mountain and threatened to kill him and the camp’s people.
• Chen Fan asked Duan whether he had broken the priest’s ribs, and Duan admitted it while threatening Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan unleashed his peak Seventh Rank Qi and Blood, blasting the Black-Armored Guards and destroying the camp.
• Chen Fan shattered Duan Heavenly Wolf’s Profound Nether Ice Soul Shield and killed him with a single punch.
• The surviving Black-Armored Guards saw Duan’s remains and fled the gorge in terror.

After defeating Duan Heavenly Wolf’s force at Blackstone Mountain, Chen Fan reassured the frightened short, fat priest that Profound Nether Main City’s leaders were unlikely to unite against them and promised to protect the Fire Crow Tribe. He organized care for the wounded and recovery of the spoils, while surviving guards reached a mansion in Profound Nether Main City with an urgent report.

• Chen Fan ordered the two surviving guards to warn Profound Nether Main City’s leaders to come challenge him themselves if they wanted the mine or revenge for Duan Heavenly Wolf.
• Chen Fan freed the wounded miners and told the short, fat priest to raise the flag again, while the priest worried that six Eighth-Order giants would destroy Blackstone Mountain.
• Chen Fan explained that the six leaders of Profound Nether Main City had competing interests and promised to bear the consequences of defending the Fire Crow Tribe.
• Chen Fan instructed the priest to gather the Red Essence Copper Marrow, weapons, armor, and spirit stones, and to feed hot soup to the wounded.
• Chen Fan carried a gravely injured old miner toward a stone house as the priest rallied the surviving cultivators to work.
• Two black-armored guards rushed into a mountainside mansion in Profound Nether Main City and cried out for the Sect Master to save them.

After Duan Heavenly Wolf was killed by the young Chen Fan, Mo Xing summoned Wusha Ancestor to avenge the Black Fiend Gate. As Wusha Ancestor set out for Blackstone Mountain, the short, stout priest tried to flee and found the sky swallowed by dark clouds.

• A guard reported that a ten-year-old from the Fire Crow Tribe had killed Duan Heavenly Wolf with one punch and seized the Red Essence Copper Marrow.
• Mo Xing ordered the news concealed, then went to ask Wusha Ancestor to intervene.
• Wusha Ancestor emerged from the Blackstone Demon Cave and vowed to destroy Chen Fan and the village behind him.
• The short, stout priest decided to abandon Blackstone Mountain and escaped through a concealed passage with his valuables.
• As the priest stepped out of the gorge, the sky darkened and ghostly wails and wolf howls sounded overhead.

Chen Fan prepared the Fire Crow Tribe’s stronghold as Wusha Ancestor and the Black Fiend Guards arrived to avenge Duan Heavenly Wolf. Chen Fan confronted Wusha Ancestor, and their attacks collided in a devastating blast.

• The short, fat priest fled back to the Fire Crow Tribe’s stronghold as Wusha Ancestor’s Eighth-Order fiend storm approached.
• Chen Fan ordered the tribespeople into the stone fort’s cellar to activate the defensive totems, then went to face the enemy.
• Wusha Ancestor arrived with hundreds of Black Fiend Guards and demanded that the killer of Duan Heavenly Wolf come out.
• Chen Fan confronted Wusha Ancestor, who attacked him with a massive demonic claw.
• Chen Fan fused his Totem Power and charged upward with a fist, colliding with Wusha Ancestor’s attack and unleashing a destructive shock wave.

Chen Fan defeated the Black Fiend Guards and drove the Wusha Ancestor into retreat, then ordered the Fire Crow tribespeople to gather the spoils and care for their people. As the veterans approached him, he looked toward Profound Nether Main City with cold resolve.

• Chen Fan chose not to pursue the wounded Wusha Ancestor and killed the Black Fiend Guards with a sweeping barrage of Blade Auras.
• The short, fat priest emerged from the cellar, learned the enemy had fled, and rallied the Fire Crow tribespeople to strip the battlefield.
• Chen Fan told the priest to collect the enemy's equipment and storage rings, then ordered supplies for the old, weak, women, and children.
• The priest reported recovering hundreds of suits of armor, battle boots, and storage bone rings, and Chen Fan caught him hiding two Spirit Crystals before letting him keep them.
• Several veteran Fire Crow hunters approached Chen Fan, and he stood to catch them by the arms as they tried to bow.

Chen Fan reassured the Fire Crow Tribe that they no longer had to fear the great tribes of Profound Nether Main City. At the Black Fiend Gate, the badly injured Wusha Ancestor concealed his weakness from Zhao Qianjue, who left after threatening to probe him, and collapsed once he was alone.

• Chen Fan promised the Fire Crow Tribe that he would protect them, and the tribesmen celebrated their survival.
• Wusha Ancestor returned to the Black Fiend Gate with a shattered chest and a cracked golden core, then swallowed three Ninth-Turn Life-Restoring Pills.
• Zhao Qianjue entered the forbidden grounds and questioned Wusha Ancestor about the blood fiend energy and his return.
• Wusha Ancestor hid his injuries, claimed he had suffered a cultivation backlash, and threatened to detonate the sect-protecting array.
• Zhao Qianjue withdrew, and Wusha Ancestor collapsed and vomited fragments of his internal organs.

Wusha Ancestor sealed Black Fiend Gate after fleeing, while Zhao Qianjue tracked the force behind his defeat to Blackstone Mountain. Chen Fan confronted Zhao when he arrived, and their clash left Zhao driven back in midair.

• Wusha Ancestor activated the Ten-Thousand Fiends Subduing Demon Grand Formation to seal Black Fiend Gate while he recovered.
• Zhao Qianjue recognized the fist aura in Wusha Ancestor’s blood mist and flew toward the Blackstone Mountains.
• At Blackstone Mountain Main Stronghold, Chen Fan caught Wang Dafu hiding three demonic beast inner cores and let him keep them after a warning.
• Zhao Qianjue’s arrival brought crushing pressure over the stronghold, so Chen Fan flew into the clouds and attacked him with a gray-red saber.
• Zhao Qianjue blocked Chen Fan’s strike with a wall of crimson flames, but the blade shattered it and forced him three steps backward.

Chen Fan agreed to join Zhao Qianjue in attacking the Black Fiend Gate, negotiating to claim its territory, mineral veins, and Wu Sha’s storage ring. He then told the Fire Crow Tribe that they would target only the Black Fiend Gate and establish their camp on a spirit vein in Profound Nether Main City.

• Zhao Qianjue revealed that Wu Sha had returned to the Black Fiend Gate wounded and sealed behind the Ten-Thousand Fiends Subduing Demon Grand Formation.
• Zhao Qianjue proposed that he and Chen Fan join forces to destroy the Black Fiend Gate and divide its wealth and territory.
• Chen Fan demanded the Black Fiend Gate’s territory and mineral veins, as well as Wu Sha’s storage ring, and Zhao Qianjue accepted.
• Chen Fan agreed to meet Zhao Qianjue outside the Black Fiend Gate in three days, then privately dismissed the idea of conquering Profound Nether Main City.
• Chen Fan told the Fire Crow Tribe to kill Wu Sha, destroy the Black Fiend Gate, and claim its spirit mines and territory.

Chen Fan led the Fire Crow Tribe’s elite guards to join Zhao Qianjue’s Blazing Sun Sect in attacking Black Fiend Gate. When Wusha Ancestor recognized Chen Fan outside the sect’s protective formation, he panicked and shouted for everyone to run.

• Chen Fan healed the wounded guards and ordered the recovered elites to prepare for the expedition against Black Fiend Gate.
• Chen Fan led a hundred Fire Crow Tribe guards to meet Zhao Qianjue, and the two forces set out for Black Fiend Gate.
• Zhao Qianjue attacked the sect’s mountain gate and called Wusha Ancestor out from behind the Ten-Thousand Fiends Subduing Demon Grand Formation.
• Chen Fan taunted Wusha Ancestor about his injured chest, and Wusha Ancestor recognized him as the youth who had badly wounded him three days earlier.
• Wusha Ancestor’s old injury reopened, and he shouted for everyone to run.

Chen Fan killed Wusha Ancestor with one saber strike, destroying Black Fiend Gate’s formation and leaving its disciples at his mercy. After the Fire Crow Guards and Blazing Sun Sect secured the territory, Zhao Qianjue yielded all the treasury’s wealth to the Fire Crow Tribe.

• Wusha Ancestor recognized Chen Fan, fled, and was killed by Chen Fan’s saber strike after the Ten-Thousand Fiends Subduing Demon Grand Formation collapsed.
• Black Fiend Gate’s disciples surrendered, and Chen Fan ordered Wang Dafu to send the Fire Crow Guards to surround the mountain gate.
• Zhao Qianjue ordered the Blazing Sun Sect disciples to help secure Black Fiend Gate’s territory and avoid interfering near the inner gate.
• The sects opened Black Fiend Gate’s underground vault and found spirit stones, Baleful Spirit Fruits, profound essence heavy iron, and cultivation manuals.
• Zhao Qianjue abandoned the Blazing Sun Sect’s claim to the treasury and offered all its wealth to the Fire Crow Tribe.

Chen Fan secured the Blazing Sun Sect’s alliance and took control of the Black Fiend Gate’s mountain stronghold for the Fire Crow Tribe. After arranging the tribe’s move and the spoils, he entered the fire-vein cavern to cultivate, while the City Lord’s approval remained a looming obstacle.

• Zhao Qianjue abandoned his claim to the Black Fiend Gate’s wealth and formed an alliance with Chen Fan and the Fire Crow Tribe.
• Chen Fan ordered the Fire Crow Tribe to move from Blackstone Mountain to the Black Fiend Gate’s mountain stronghold, and Wang Dafu accepted the decree.
• Zhao Qianjue explained that Chen Fan would need the City Lord’s seal to inherit the Black Fiend Gate’s position and warned him about the powerful city lord.
• Zhao Qianjue promised to escort Chen Fan to the City Lord’s Mansion in three days, while Chen Fan privately questioned whether he would be the one to bow.
• Chen Fan ordered the spoils divided among the injured, the stronghold, the old tribe base, and the warriors who fought in the battle.
• Chen Fan entered the Black Fiend Gate’s lava chamber and sat above the middle-grade fire vein to cultivate.

Chen Fan absorbed the chamber’s energy and broke through to the Eighth-Order before traveling with Zhao Qianjue to Profound Nether Main City. At the city lord’s gathering, Chen Fan calmly met the Profound Nether City Lord’s gaze, leaving the powerful ruler intrigued by the youth’s unfathomable presence.

• Chen Fan used his water-and-fire powers to condense a Black-and-White Millstone and drew in spiritual energy and earthfire for two days.
• Chen Fan broke through to the Eighth-Order and demonstrated his new strength with a punch that cratered the chamber wall.
• Zhao Qianjue met Chen Fan outside the chamber, and they flew together to Profound Nether Main City.
• At the Pilgrimage Hall, sect leaders questioned Zhao Qianjue’s choice to bring a child, then entered after the tower doors opened and its Eighth-Order Peak pressure emerged.
• Chen Fan stood beside Zhao Qianjue without bowing, and the Profound Nether City Lord studied him as their gazes met.

Chen Fan attended the pilgrimage at Xuanming City, where the city lord recognized him as the Lord of the Fire Crows and granted his tribe authority over the Black Fiend Gate’s former territory. After the other sect leaders apologized and offered gifts, Chen Fan lamented that their good behavior had deprived him of an excuse to conquer their territories.

• The city lord of Xuanming identified Chen Fan as the Lord of the Fire Crows, stunning the sect masters who had mistaken him for a junior.
• The city lord declared that the Fire Crow Tribe could take over the Black Fiend Gate’s territory and gave Chen Fan the Xuanming Command Seal.
• The city lord urged the assembled powers to govern their territories and avoid needless conflict, then ended the pilgrimage.
• The Myriad Sword Pavilion Master, Wild Lion Valley Master, and Heavenly Water Palace Master apologized to Chen Fan and offered him gifts.
• Chen Fan told Zhao Qianjue he had hoped the sect masters would provoke him so he could flatten their factions and seize their ore.

Chen Fan returned to the Fire Crow Tribe, distributed the Black Fiend Gate’s spoils to strengthen its people, and celebrated with them. When an injured scout reported that the Iron Armor Sect had massacred the mine’s workers and desecrated the tribe’s banner, Chen Fan prepared to retaliate.

• Zhao Qianjue told Chen Fan that the Iron Armor Sect had taken over the Black Fiend Wind-Eye Mine after the Black Fiend Gate fell.
• Chen Fan returned to Blackstone Mountain and reunited with his mother, giving her Snow Soul Pills to eat like candy.
• Chen Fan ordered Wang Dafu to distribute armor, spirit stones, and provisions among the Fire Crow Tribe and its families.
• Chen Fan celebrated with the tribe, sharing a meal with veteran warriors and secretly healing their damaged meridians.
• A wounded squad captain reported that the Iron Armor Sect’s War Puppets had killed the miners and used the Fire Crow Battle Banner to wipe themselves.
• Chen Fan drew his broken saber and set out to confront the Iron Armor Sect.

Chen Fan arrived at the mine seized by the Iron Armor Sect and crushed its battle puppets and commander with overwhelming force. The surviving Iron Armor Sect soldiers were left terrified as he stood victorious.

• The Iron Armor Sect commander mocked the Black Fiend Gate's new rulers while forcing Profound Nether Main City miners to work under guard.
• Chen Fan appeared above the mine and challenged the commander, who ordered the battle puppets to attack him.
• Chen Fan shattered the puppets' iron projectiles with a punch and destroyed one puppet with a single blow.
• The bushy-bearded commander attacked Chen Fan, but Chen Fan blocked his strike and broke his broadsword with three saber blows.
• The commander was knocked into the mine, leaving the remaining Iron Armor Sect troops stunned by Chen Fan's strength.