Chapter Summaries

After completing his fourth Marrow Cleansing Blood Changing with the Crimson Flame Heart, Zhou Shan went to the Daoyuan Sect to negotiate a trip to claim Hundred Year Thunder Fruits. When Huang Shi challenged his demand for four fruits, Zhou Shan defeated the Demon Ape Palace patriarch with one move, leaving their dispute settled by his overwhelming strength.

• Zhou Shan traded two hundred spirit stones for the Crimson Flame Heart and learned that a Thunder Gathering Vine in the Barbaric Land would soon produce Hundred Year Thunder Fruits.
• Zhou Shan completed his fourth Marrow Cleansing Blood Changing, grew stronger, and found that two days of saber nurturing registered as eight days.
• Zhou Shan arrived at the Daoyuan Sect and met First Grand Elder Zhao Jiushan and Huang Shi, the Demon Ape Palace patriarch, to discuss their journey for six Thunder Fruits.
• Zhou Shan rejected an equal division and proposed that Huang Shi withstand one move from him or accept that Zhou Shan and Zhao Jiushan would handle the expedition.
• Huang Shi accepted the challenge and used Demon Ape Transformation, while Zhou Shan activated his Vajra transformations and struck Huang Shi with a single punch that sent him crashing into a mountainside.

Zhou Shan defeated Huang Shi with one punch, then traveled with Zhao Jiushan into the Barbaric Land to claim Hundred Year Thunder Fruit. After waiting thirty days at the Sky Net Mountain Range, they watched the Thunder Fruit undergo its tenth lightning baptism, while the guarding Thunder Crystal Beast remained nearby.

• Zhou Shan severely wounded Huang Shi in one move, revealing strength at the Fourth Stage Blood Transmutation Realm, and Huang Shi conceded defeat.
• Zhou Shan and Zhao Jiushan rode to South Desolate City, entered the Barbaric Land, and headed toward the Sky Net Mountain Range, where Zhao Jiushan had found a Thunder Gathering Vine.
• Zhou Shan and Zhao Jiushan found six ninety-year Thunder Fruit guarded by a Peak Third Stage Blood Transmutation Thunder Crystal Beast and waited for the fruits to mature.
• After thirty days, a thunderstorm struck the Thunder Gathering Vine, and the six fruits began gaining their tenth silver stripe to become Hundred Year Thunder Fruit.

Zhou Shan defeated the Thunder Crystal Beast, collected the Hundred Year Thunder Fruits, and later completed his Fifth Marrow Cleansing Blood Change. After returning to South Desolate City to seek spiritual items and a Divine Intent Diagram, he arrived at Heavenly Treasure Tower’s auction.

• Zhou Shan killed the Thunder Crystal Beast with the Dragon Slaying Saber and Mount Tai Hammer, then collected its Fourth-Tier Demonic Crystal.
• Zhou Shan collected the six Hundred Year Thunder Fruits and gave two to Zhao Jiushan before they parted ways.
• After 201 days of cultivation, Zhou Shan consumed a Hundred Year Thunder Fruit and completed his Fifth Marrow Cleansing Blood Change, gaining the Thunderflame trait.
• Zhou Shan decided to seek a Divine Intent Diagram and an item for his next blood change in South Desolate City.
• Zhou Shan learned Heavenly Treasure Tower would hold an auction, then entered the auction hall and met his guide, Wang Ying.

Zhou Shan sold his treasures at Heavenly Treasure Tower’s grand auction, bought the Azure Blood Golden Fruit, and won the Blade Path Divine Intent Scroll. As Tie Muzhen and Great Yuan attacked the tower, a Great Yuan grandmaster blocked Zhou Shan and demanded that he surrender the scroll.

• Zhou Shan consigned Treasure Weapons, Hundred Year Thunder Fruits, and Demonic Beast crystals, then won the Azure Blood Golden Fruit for 230 Spirit Stones.
• Zhou Shan used his auction proceeds to win the Blade Path Divine Intent Scroll for 1,650 Spirit Stones and confirmed that its image contained blade intent.
• Tie Muzhen seized the Avalanche Divine Intent Scroll, declared that the Black Dragon Society had assassinated the Great Yuan Khan, and fought Heavenly Treasure Tower’s grandmasters.
• Tie Muzhen and other Great Yuan grandmasters attacked and looted Heavenly Treasure Tower, forcing Zhou Shan and the other guests to flee.
• A Great Yuan grandmaster who had completed three blood transmutations stopped Zhou Shan and demanded the Blade Path Divine Intent Scroll.

Zhou Shan killed two Great Yuan Nation Grandmasters, escaped South Desolate City with a Mustard Seed Bag containing five thousand spirit stones, and used a Blade Path Divine Intent Diagram to master Saber Intent. He then completed the Sixth Marrow Cleansing Blood Change and considered obtaining a Divine Intent Diagram for his next transformation.

• Zhou Shan killed a three-time Blood Transmutation Grandmaster, then turned and killed the five-time Grandmaster pursuing him with a Saber Intent strike, taking his intermediate-grade treasure armor and Mustard Seed Bag.
• Zhou Shan learned that Tie Muzhen had reached the seven-time Blood Transmutation Realm and displayed Intent power, so he fled South Desolate City into the Barbaric Land.
• Zhou Shan opened the Mustard Seed Bag and found five thousand spirit stones, then used the Blade Path Divine Intent Scroll to cultivate Saber Intent over two hundred days.
• Zhou Shan tested his Saber Intent on demon wolves and other demon beasts, confirming that it could extinguish their spiritual consciousness and help him fight stronger opponents.
• After thirty-three more days of cultivation, Zhou Shan swallowed the Azure Blood Golden Fruit and completed the Sixth Marrow Cleansing Blood Change two days later.

Zhou Shan entered the Fire Cloud Mountain Range to claim a treasure taken from an Earth Origin Realm Venerable’s tomb and defeated the gathered Grandmasters with one slash. After revealing that he had reached six Blood Transmutations, he faced an offer from a Blazing Fire Sect elder to join the sect and be recommended to its Great Li Dynasty branch.

• Zhou Shan learned that Black Wind King Sikong He had taken a Divine Intent Diagram and a manual from the outer reaches of the tomb, and that Grandmasters had surrounded him to seize the treasure.
• Wind Thunder Blade Lu Ming gravely injured Sikong He, who threw the treasure bundle away as the surrounding Grandmasters hesitated to claim it.
• Zhou Shan picked up the bundle and identified its contents as the Great Sun Burning Heaven Saber manual and its Divine Intent Diagram, then refused to hand them over.
• Zhang Tianlei attacked Zhou Shan, who killed him with a single saber slash and revealed that his cultivation had reached six Blood Transmutations.
• Zhou Shan warned the assembled Grandmasters to leave, and the Giant Sword Sect fighters fled without challenging him.
• A Blazing Fire Sect elder offered Zhou Shan the chance to keep the treasure and receive a recommendation to join the Blazing Fire Heavenly Sect of the Great Li Dynasty.

Zhou Shan killed Mo Feng of the Blazing Fire Sect after defeating his High-grade Treasure Weapon with Blade Intent, then bought spiritual items and the Vajra Divine Intent at the Heavenly Treasure Tower. The chapter ended with the tower accusing him of holding its stolen Mustard Seed Bag and threatening to take it by force.

• Mo Feng tried to force Zhou Shan to join the Blazing Fire Sect and attacked him with a High-grade Treasure Weapon, but Zhou Shan countered with Blade Intent and killed him with one punch.
• Zhou Shan took Mo Feng’s crimson longsaber, searched his corpse, and left while the watching Grandmasters feared to pursue him.
• Zhou Shan asked Steward Chen at the Heavenly Treasure Tower for spiritual items and the Vajra Divine Intent, then bought them and sold his Blade Path Divine Intent Scroll.
• Steward Chen recognized the Mustard Seed Bag as property stolen from the Heavenly Treasure Tower and demanded that Zhou Shan return it along with the Spirit Stones inside.
• Zhou Shan refused, and Steward Chen threatened to have the Heavenly Treasure Tower’s Grandmasters seize the bag and its contents.

Zhou Shan killed Heavenly Treasure Tower’s guards, plundered its treasury, and fled into the Barbaric Land. News of his true strength spread through South Desolate City, while he chose to avoid the Earth Origin Realm Venerable’s sealed tomb and cultivate in seclusion.

• Zhou Shan killed Manager Chen and a five-time Blood Transmutation grandmaster, reclaimed his Spirit Stones and Blade Path Divine Intent Scroll, then defeated Heavenly Treasure Tower’s guards, including its six-time grandmaster wielding the Giant Whale Halberd.
• Zhou Shan forced a surviving grandmaster to lead him to the treasury, killed its two five-time guards, and took its Spirit Stones, Spiritual Items, Treasure Weapons, and Divine Intent Diagrams.
• Zhou Shan left South Desolate City for the Barbaric Land after plundering Heavenly Treasure Tower, while rumors about the robbery spread through the city.
• South Desolate City’s powers learned that Zhou Shan was a six-time Blood Transmutation grandmaster who had mastered saber intent and killed Mo Feng with the Blazing Fire Saber.
• Zhou Shan decided not to approach the Ancient Tomb Mansion and instead found a place in the Barbaric Land to cultivate in seclusion.

Zhou Shan mastered Vajra Intent during his seventh Blood Transmutation and learned that the Earth Origin Realm Venerable’s tomb had drawn numerous powerful contenders, including Tie Muzhen. He reached the Purple Luo Mountain Range and faced an immediate attack from the Blazing Fire Sect’s seven-time Blood Transmutation grandmaster.

• Zhou Shan studied the Great Sun Burning Heaven Saber and used the Blazing Fire Saber to cultivate a fusion of Saber Intent and Flame Intent.
• After reaching the peak of his sixth Blood Transmutation, Zhou Shan swallowed the Vajra Glazed Fruit, completed his seventh transformation, and mastered Vajra Intent.
• Zhou Shan found a map to the Great Li Dynasty in the Heavenly Treasure Tower’s spoils, then decided to check whether the Earth Origin Realm Venerable’s tomb had opened.
• Zhou Shan learned that twelve Legendary Figures had gathered at the tomb and that Tie Muzhen had killed a Heavenly Treasure Tower grandmaster after mastering three kinds of intent.
• Zhou Shan traveled to the Purple Luo Mountain Range and openly approached the tomb, where the Blazing Fire Sect’s seven-time Blood Transmutation grandmaster recognized him and charged to kill him.

Zhou Shan killed Old Ancestor Huoyun with a single fused-Intent saber strike, then entered the Ancient Tomb Mansion after its formation seal collapsed. He collected treasures from several chambers and joined the other Grandmasters attacking a barrier that held four Mustard Seed Bags.

• Zhou Shan fused Flame Intent and Saber Intent to suppress Old Ancestor Huoyun's consciousness, then split him in two with one slash and took his High-grade Treasure Weapon and Mustard Seed Bag.
• Zhou Shan waited as the formation seal weakened, and he and the other Grandmasters rushed into the Ancient Tomb Mansion when it broke.
• Zhou Shan entered a passageway, found over a hundred thousand spirit stones, demonic crystals, rare forging materials, and Treasure Weapons in its chambers, and stored them in his Mustard Seed Bags.
• Zhou Shan reached a vast hall where the Grandmasters were attacking a light barrier containing four Mustard Seed Bags, then joined their assault.

Zhou Shan obtained the Black Heaven True Scripture and the Earth-grade Black Nightmare Saber from the Ancient Tomb Mansion, then traveled toward the Great Li Dynasty. After reaching the Golden Lion Mountain Range, he intervened when the Black Snake Gang tried to silence him and began fighting its Hall Master, Tu Ning.

• Zhou Shan seized a Mustard Seed Bag when the barrier shattered, escaped the Ancient Tomb Mansion, and found the Black Heaven True Scripture, a Divine Intent Diagram, and the Black Nightmare Saber inside.
• Zhou Shan learned that Black Heaven Venerable had reached the peak of the Heaven Origin Realm and that the Black Heaven True Scripture could be cultivated to the Core Origin Realm.
• Forty days later, Zhou Shan encountered the Black Snake Gang attacking a Jiang Family caravan and killed several gang members who tried to silence him.
• Jiang Qingxuan warned Zhou Shan that Tu Ning was a Seventh Blood Transmutation Grandmaster with two Intent powers and a High-grade Treasure Weapon, but Zhou Shan chose to fight Tu Ning alone.
• Zhou Shan used the Great Sun Burning Heaven Saber and Vajra Intent to break through Tu Ning's defenses and suppress his mind.

Zhou Shan killed Tu Ning and the Black Snake Gang attackers, then followed Jiang Qingxuan’s caravan to Jinling City and received the Jiang Family’s promised reward and Wrath Vajra Divine Intent Diagram. After seven days of cultivation, he completed his eighth blood changing and set his sights on the Thunderflame Vajra Divine Intent Diagram and the materials for his ninth.

• Zhou Shan killed Tu Ning with one slash, then slaughtered the fleeing Black Snake Gang martial artists and collected their spoils.
• Jiang Qingxuan invited Zhou Shan, who used the alias Li Feiyu, to Jinling City and offered him three thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones and access to the Wrath Vajra Divine Intent Diagram.
• Jiang Qingxuan reported the ambush to Jiang Zhenshan, who approved lending Zhou Shan the diagram and giving him the promised Spirit Stones.
• Zhou Shan secluded himself at Jiang Manor and used the Fire Sun Profound Fruit and Wrath Vajra Divine Intent Diagram to complete his eighth blood changing, gaining Flame Intent.
• Zhou Shan returned the diagram to Jiang Qingxuan and planned to obtain the Thunderflame Vajra Divine Intent Diagram and the items needed for his ninth blood changing.

Zhou Shan bought the Golden Thunder Fruit, Thunderflame Vajra Divine Intent, and information about the Great Li Dynasty before the Black Snake Gang confronted him. After killing Song Ming and his men, he stormed the gang’s headquarters and killed its leader Song Lei with the Earth-grade Black Nightmare Saber.

• Jiang Qingxuan led Zhou Shan to the Myriad Treasures Merchant Association, where he bought the items he needed and a detailed map of the Great Li Dynasty.
• Song Ming and the Black Snake Gang blocked Zhou Shan and Jiang Qingxuan; Zhou Shan used two fused Intents to defeat and kill the eightfold Blood Transmutation Grandmaster Luo Yuan.
• Zhou Shan killed Song Ming and the other Black Snake Gang martial artists, then asked Jiang Qingxuan to take him to the gang’s headquarters.
• Zhou Shan fought his way into the Black Snake Gang stronghold while a gang chief head reported Song Ming’s death to Song Lei.
• Song Lei confronted Zhou Shan, who attacked with the Earth-grade Black Nightmare Saber and cut Song Lei into pieces with a barrage of black saber qi.

Zhou Shan destroyed the Black Snake Gang, completed nine blood transmutations, and traveled to the Eight Extremes Heavenly Sect to seek a path into the Earth Origin Realm. After passing the sect’s Ascending Heaven Ladder, he arrived at the Outer Sect Hall to register.

• Zhou Shan killed Song Lei and the Black Snake Gang’s five elders with the Black Nightmare Saber, then offered the gang’s assets to Jiang Qingxuan’s family in exchange for Spirit Stones.
• More than eight months later, Zhou Shan completed his ninth blood transmutation after consuming the Golden Thunder Fruit and decided to join the Eight Extremes Heavenly Sect.
• Zhou Shan traveled to Sky Dome Peak and passed the 9,999-step Ascending Heaven Ladder using his Intent powers.
• A gate disciple welcomed Zhou Shan into the sect and guided him to the Outer Sect Hall, where a steward began his registration.

Zhou Shan joined the Eight Extremes Heavenly Sect and used the Profound Yin Black Fiend Vein to refine Earth Fiend Qi. He broke through to the Earth Origin Realm and set off to return to the sect.

• Zhou Shan registered as an Outer Sect Disciple, revealed that he had completed nine blood transmutations, and received a residence in the Heavenly Courtyard.
• Zhou Shan exchanged five hundred thousand Spirit Stones for Contribution Points and obtained permission to cultivate in the Profound Yin Black Fiend Vein for ten days.
• Zhou Shan traveled to the Profound Yin Mountain Range and began absorbing the cold fiend qi in Stone Chamber No. 8.
• Zhou Shan used the Black Heaven True Scripture to fuse Profound Yin Black Fiend Qi, True Qi, and spiritual power into True Essence Mana.
• After five days of cultivation, Zhou Shan broke through to the Earth Origin Realm and gained Darkness True Intent.
• When his ten-day permit ended, Zhou Shan left the stone chamber and set off to return to the Eight Extremes Heavenly Sect.

Zhou Shan passed the inspection and ceremony to become a True Disciple of the Eight Extremes Heavenly Sect, then accepted a task to kill a rampaging Demon Warrior in the Great Liang Dynasty. He reached the Eight Extremes Branch Sect in Yue Province, where Branch Sect Master Lu Zuo greeted him as the Heavenly Sect’s envoy.

• Zhou Shan passed the True Inheritance Hall’s identity inspection, explained that he had cultivated Black Heaven Venerable’s Black Heaven True Scripture, and was promoted to True Disciple.
• Zhou Shan paid respects to the sect’s patriarchs, moved into the True Disciple district, and planned to seek Heavenly Yang Blazing Fire Fiend to prepare for advancing to the Heaven Origin Realm.
• Zhou Shan accepted a Grade Five task to kill a Demon Warrior in the Great Liang Dynasty and was told to retrieve the Demon Warrior’s corpse within a month.
• Zhou Shan obtained a Purple Cloud Eagle and flew to the Great Liang Dynasty, reaching it after three days.
• Zhou Shan arrived at the Eight Extremes Branch Sect in Yue Province, where Branch Sect Master Lu Zuo and the elders greeted him.

Zhou Shan killed a fully demonized black bear Demon Warrior in Peaceful County, then completed a mission to hunt an Ancient Dragon Ape. After more than eight months of cultivation, he reached Earth Origin Realm perfection with three hundred years of arcane power and perfected Darkness True Intent, and set out to take more missions.

• Zhou Shan and Lu Zuo flew to Peaceful County, where Zhou Shan found a black bear Demon Warrior devouring the blood of the city’s slaughtered inhabitants.
• Zhou Shan’s Darkness True Intent overwhelmed the Demon Warrior’s Profound Nether Blood Fiend, and he killed it with a single saber slash before recovering its Earth-grade demon crystal and diary.
• Zhou Shan returned to the Eight Extremes Heavenly Sect, earned ten thousand Contribution Points for the Demon Warrior mission, and exchanged the demon crystal for one hundred thousand more.
• Zhou Shan accepted a mission to kill an Ancient Dragon Ape leader, defeated it at Dragon Ape Ridge, and earned ninety thousand Contribution Points from its essence blood.
• After more than eight months of cultivation, Zhou Shan reached three hundred years of arcane power and perfected Darkness True Intent, then headed to the Mission Hall to pursue more Contribution Points.

Zhou Shan accepted a mission to kill a Corpse Demon, then took a personal commission from Elder Zheng Xuan to protect the Ling Family in the Great Qing Dynasty from the Blue Rain Water Bandit Group. After Zhou Shan reached Spirit Turtle Island, three major bandit groups surrounded it, leaving the injured Ling Family ancestor facing an overwhelming threat.

• Zhou Shan took a mission to kill a Corpse Demon in the Great Wu Dynasty and killed it with his perfected Darkness True Intent and Black Nightmare Saber.
• After Zhou Shan received thirty thousand Contribution Points for the kill, Elder Zheng Xuan commissioned him to help the Ling Family and lent him the Azure Wind Lion.
• Zhou Shan arrived at Spirit Turtle Island, where Ling Tie Jun welcomed him and explained the Blue Rain Water Bandit Group had repeatedly attacked the Ling Family stronghold.
• Ling Hou Sheng, the injured Ling Family ancestor, greeted Zhou Shan, who told the family to locate the bandits and leave the fighting to him.
• A Ling Family messenger reported that the Blue Rain Water Bandit Group and thirteen other groups were closing in on Spirit Turtle Island, including the Blood Soul and Sky Python Water Bandit Groups.

Zhou Shan killed the leaders of the Blue Rain, Blood Soul, and Sky Python Water Bandit Groups, then joined Ling Hou Sheng and Wang Chen to find the Nine Rivers King's hidden treasure. They reached the outer cave estate, Nine Rivers Cave, and prepared to continue inside.

• Ling Hou Sheng promised Zhou Shan a share of the Nine Rivers King's treasure in exchange for protecting the Ling Family from the three water bandit groups.
• Zhou Shan overwhelmed the three Earth Origin Realm bandit leaders with his consummate Darkness True Intent and killed them with three rapid saber strikes.
• Ling Hou Sheng explained that the Ling Family had captured Wang Chen, a fisherman who found the outer cave of the Nine Rivers King's estate and inherited his martial art.
• Zhou Shan, Ling Hou Sheng, and Wang Chen flew to the strange river where Wang Chen had entered the cave and found the whirlpool concealing its entrance.
• The three entered the dry cave estate and followed the stairs to a stone stele inscribed with the words “Nine Rivers Cave.”

Zhou Shan broke into the Nine Rivers King's mausoleum, shared its treasure with Ling Hou Sheng, and refined the Heavenly Yang Blazing Fire Fiend until his Heaven Origin Realm cultivation reached perfection. After the Myriad Demon Sect returned, he accepted a mission to destroy its Great Wind Dynasty stronghold and ended the chapter under attack by a hidden Demon Warrior after defeating Feng Beimo and five other Earth Origin Realm Demon Warriors.

• Zhou Shan and Ling Hou Sheng broke the formation at Nine Rivers Cave, found the Nine Rivers King's remains and treasure, and divided the treasure between them.
• Zhou Shan returned to the Eight Extremes Heavenly Sect, exchanged treasure for Contribution Points, and cultivated the Heavenly Yang Blazing Fire Fiend before spending more than nine months reaching Heaven Origin Realm perfection.
• Zhou Shan learned that the Myriad Demon Sect had returned and accepted a mission to destroy its stronghold in the Great Wind Dynasty, ruled by the demon-allied Feng Beimo.
• Zhou Shan flew to the Great Wind Dynasty's capital and killed Feng Beimo and five other Earth Origin Realm Demon Warriors with his Dark Heaven Saber.
• A hidden Demon Warrior attacked Zhou Shan with Illusion True Intent and Soul Bewildering True Intent, but Zhou Shan saw through the illusion before a multicolored whip struck his protective shield.