Chapter Summaries

A mysterious immortal took the Zhuang Family’s grain after saving them from a Daoist’s poison, and the family learned to value survival over wealth. The Yu Family, expecting to benefit from the Zhuang Family’s ruin and planning to offer grain to Cloud Peak Temple, discovered their own granary was empty.

• A Daoist persuaded the Yu Family’s young master to send all their grain to Cloud Peak Temple, promising the Zhuang Family would be destroyed and his illness cured.
• An immortal appeared to Young Master Zhuang in a dreamlike vision, asked for the family’s grain to help disaster victims, and gave him a pill to neutralize poison.
• Young Master Zhuang found his parents and servants unconscious and the grain gone, then used the pill to revive them and expel the poison.
• A servant identified the poisoner as a Daoist, and Young Master Zhuang realized the immortal had saved the household while taking its grain.
• Master Zhuang accepted the loss after realizing his family’s lives mattered more than their fortune, and people praised Young Master Zhuang’s kindness.
• The Yu Family prepared to donate its grain to Cloud Peak Temple, but found its granary completely empty.

Chen Feng fed the disaster victims outside the city with rice he produced from nowhere, while grain merchants suspected him of stealing their supplies. The Daoist stayed in town to investigate the missing grain and the Zhuang Family’s recovery.

• The Yu Family discovered that its grain had vanished, and the Daoist could not determine who had moved it.
• The Daoist heard that the Zhuang Family had survived poison and decided to stay in town and investigate.
• As more refugees crowded outside the city, many considered leaving because they had too little food and could barely walk.
• Chen Feng borrowed the inn’s stove, produced sacks of rice, and cooked porridge for the refugees.
• Two martial artists and several yamen runners helped Chen Feng distribute porridge to the hungry crowd.
• Grain merchants learned that Chen Feng was feeding the refugees and began suspecting that he had stolen their grain.

Chen Feng used a display of supernatural power to evade the merchants demanding their stolen grain and convince the gathered crowd that he was an immortal. After he vanished, silver notes fell from the sky in an amount equal to the value of the missing grain.

• The merchants accused Chen Feng of stealing their grain and went to confront him as refugees carried away the porridge.
• Mist obscured Chen Feng when the merchants rushed toward him, and he appeared atop the city wall, glowing like an immortal.
• The county magistrate, the Yu Family, Young Master Zhuang, the merchants, and the middle-aged Daoist arrived and witnessed Chen Feng’s display.
• The Yu Family head and the merchants were shaken by Chen Feng’s apparent powers, while the middle-aged Daoist recognized him and feared him.
• Chen Feng vanished, and silver notes fell from the sky; the county magistrate’s people counted an amount equal to the value of the lost grain.

After Chen Feng left the city, the county magistrate punished the Taoist and the Yu Family for their crimes, and the merchants promised to help the refugees. Chen Feng continued along the official road and reached a vast plain of withered fields, where he heard a faint rustling sound.

• The county magistrate returned money to the merchants for the grain Chen Feng had taken to aid the refugees.
• The Zhuang Family's young master identified the Taoist as a fraud, and Chen Feng's glance had secretly crippled the Taoist's martial arts.
• The county magistrate interrogated the Taoist, who confessed to his scams and collaboration with the Yu Family.
• The county magistrate ordered the Taoist executed after autumn and his property confiscated, and he ordered the Yu Family's head executed as well.
• The merchants promised to buy grain and reserve some for refugee relief, stabilizing the crisis.
• Chen Feng rode onward and reached a plain of dried-up fields, where he heard a faint rustling sound.

Chen Feng encountered a devastating locust plague and met an old farmer who had refused to abandon his homeland. After sharing the farmer’s food and water, Chen Feng destroyed the locust swarms with lightning and fire, leaving the old farmer stunned.

• Chen Feng saw countless locusts devouring the land and destroying villages and crops.
• Chen Feng met an old farmer who was trying to drive the locusts from his fields with a gong.
• The old farmer gave Chen Feng water and flatbread and urged him to flee the plague and drought.
• Chen Feng asked why the old farmer would not leave, and the farmer said he wanted to die in his own hometown.
• Chen Feng flicked a finger, summoning lightning and flames that burned the locusts from the sky.
• The old farmer dropped what he was holding and stared in shock at Chen Feng’s power.

Chen Feng traveled through a famine-stricken region and entered Liangzhou City, where he discovered officials feasting while disaster victims starved. After Zhou Feng demanded that relief grain be sent, Prefect Zhao Qian postponed the issue and summoned the guests to a room where a chest of treasure was revealed.

• Chen Feng gave an old man a bag of corn and continued his journey.
• Chen Feng passed dead travelers and dried rivers before entering Liangzhou City by using a trick on the guards.
• Chen Feng heard opera and found officials and nobles feasting at Prefect Zhao Qian's residence.
• Zhou Feng asked Zhao Qian when disaster relief grain would reach Liangzhou City and said he could not bear to see victims starve.
• Zhao Qian delayed the discussion because of his birthday, then had his guests brought inside, where they saw a chest filled with gold, silver, and treasures.

At Zhao Qian’s birthday feast, Chen Feng appeared as a young Daoist and demonstrated his ability to make people fly. He lifted Zhao Qian high into the air, then released him, killing him in the fall.

• Zhao Qian offered the gathered officials money instead of grain, and most of them accepted it.
• Zhao Qian hosted a feast with opera performances for officials and local commoners.
• After a drunk guest kicked a dancer off the stage, Chen Feng stepped forward and claimed he could make people fly.
• Chen Feng used his true qi to lift Zhao Qian into the air as the crowd watched.
• Chen Feng released Zhao Qian from dozens of meters up, and Zhao Qian fell to the ground and was smashed to pieces.

Chen Feng killed Lord Zhao Qian and the corrupt officials in Liangzhou City, allowing Zhou Feng to open the hidden granary and feed the refugees. Chen Feng then traveled to Qingshan County, a spiritually rich place that had mysteriously escaped the disaster.

• Chen Feng killed Lord Zhao Qian and knocked down the officials and guards who tried to seize him.
• After Chen Feng left, Zhou Feng found Liangzhou City's granary full of grain and began distributing porridge to the refugees.
• The grateful residents learned that a Daoist had saved them and kowtowed in his direction as the city slowly recovered.
• Chen Feng investigated the area and then traveled to Qingshan County, which had been untouched by the disaster and locusts.
• Chen Feng saw that Qingshan County was surrounded by mountains and rich in spiritual energy.

Chen Feng reached Qingshan County and found its people worshipping the Locust God, believing the ritual had kept them safe from disaster. The ceremony’s black-clad organizer reminded Chen Feng of the middle-aged Daoist he had encountered before.

• Chen Feng found villages and county gates guarded against refugees, so he climbed into Qingshan County over an unguarded stretch of wall.
• Chen Feng saw a procession carrying enormous straw locusts and learned from a local that Qingshan County held the ritual to ward off disaster.
• Chen Feng suspected the ceremony’s organizers had spread the claim that worshipping locusts prevented calamities.
• The county magistrate prayed to the Locust God, and a tall man in black took the prayer sheet to begin the ceremony.
• Chen Feng sensed that the man in black had an aura similar to the middle-aged Daoist he had met before.

Chen Feng saw that a black-clad man, not the supposed Locust God, had driven the locusts away, while Cloud Peak Temple used the event to gain followers and offerings. At the group’s mountain hall, the Taoists learned that their ancestors’ statues had moved.

• The black-clad man shook a bottle, frightening the locusts into flying away from Qingshan County.
• The county magistrate, officials, merchants, and commoners brought offerings to the shrine, and Chen Feng connected the group to Cloud Peak Temple.
• At a mountain hall, the black-clad man ordered the offerings stored among statues of the Locust God, the Plague God, and the Drought God.
• The black-clad man asked about Eldest Senior Brother, who had not returned and had sent no news.
• A messenger told Second Senior Brother that the ancestors’ statues had moved.

Chen Feng discovered that Cloud Peak Temple's disciples had released the locusts and used worship of the Locust God to control the region and gather supplies. The next day, the man in black exposed their deception to the people of Qingshan County, who began to question what they had believed.

• Chen Feng used the statue of Cloud Peak Temple's founding master to make the man in black confess that Eldest Senior Brother had ordered them to release locusts and spread faith in the Locust God.
• The man in black revealed that Eldest Senior Brother had given him a jar containing a powerful locust, which could command the others.
• Chen Feng learned that the disciples released locusts during droughts to cultivate an evil art and control local beliefs.
• The disciples carried their altar back to Qingshan County, where the county magistrate and commoners welcomed them and made offerings.
• The man in black publicly admitted that the disciples had released the locusts and deceived the people into worshipping them.
• The commoners were stunned and began questioning whether the disciples had caused the plague to win their trust and take their supplies.

The man in black revealed that he and his group had caused the locust disasters to exploit desperate townspeople, then tried to take back his confession by claiming he had been controlled. The townspeople attacked, and as he fled to the city gate, Chen Feng blocked his way while the man summoned locusts from the distant sky.

• The man in black admitted that his group had released locusts and deceived disaster-stricken places into giving them money and trust.
• The man in black realized he had confessed and claimed someone had controlled his mind, but the furious townspeople refused to believe him.
• The townspeople charged the group with hoes and wooden clubs, killing some of its members as the man in black escaped outside the city.
• Chen Feng blocked the man in black at the city gate while the townspeople surged after them.
• The man in black used the jar to call locusts from the distant sky, and Chen Feng let him gather them so he could wipe them all out at once.

Chen Feng destroyed the locust swarm and the Locust God with lightning, earning the people’s gratitude as an immortal. As the locusts disappeared, rain finally fell on the drought-stricken area, leaving the people celebrating and drinking it.

• The man in black summoned thousands of locusts to attack Chen Feng, but they died as they passed through his radiance.
• Chen Feng summoned lightning and burned the locust swarm, while the people knelt and hailed him as an immortal.
• Chen Feng struck the Locust God with lightning, killing it and reducing the man in black to ashes.
• The people rejoiced as the locusts vanished, and some refugees gathered and ate the cooked locusts.
• Dark clouds gathered and heavy rain fell, prompting the people to celebrate, weep, and drink the life-saving rain.

After the locusts were destroyed, people mistook the naturally occurring rain for Chen Feng’s doing, and he continued his journey toward Loulan. After breaking through to the late stage of the True Qi Realm and advancing his Five Thunder Curse to Yang Thunder, he reached the desert and spotted several figures ahead.

• Chen Feng left after destroying the locusts as rain fell, while the people praised him as an immortal.
• The rain continued for two days and nights, though it had formed naturally and had nothing to do with Chen Feng.
• Chen Feng gained one thousand Demon Suppression Value for killing evil people and continued killing demons along the way.
• Chen Feng accumulated enough Demon Suppression Value to reach the late stage of the True Qi Realm, and his Five Thunder Curse advanced to Yang Thunder.
• After traveling for over a month, Chen Feng reached a desert and continued across it with his horse.
• Chen Feng spotted several figures ahead and stopped, wary of encountering strangers in the remote desert.

Chen Feng met five wary disciples from Heavenly Saint Academy in the desert and convinced them to let him travel with them. The group set off together, leaving the disciples stunned as they continued on foot.

• Zhuang Wu and the other disciples mistook Chen Feng for a possible horse bandit and questioned him.
• The disciples discussed whether to help Chen Feng, then gave him a Positioning Stone to guide him out of the desert.
• Chen Feng returned the stone and asked to join them, insisting despite their warnings about the danger.
• Zhuang Wu and the others introduced themselves as disciples of Heavenly Saint Academy, while Chen Feng said he came from Yangzhou City.
• Chen Feng and the five disciples set off together, and the disciples were dumbfounded as they traveled on foot.

Chen Feng and the group crossed the desert and found signs of the bandits draining victims of their blood essence. They reached a market filled with slaughtered people, leaving them to face the full horror of the bandits’ raid.

• Chen Feng traveled through the sandstorm with ease, while the others struggled against the wind and sand.
• The group found recently killed, shriveled corpses, and Zhuang Wu blamed the bandits before helping bury them.
• Chen Feng produced a flatbread from his system space, and Zhuang Wu and the others assumed he had a Space Treasure.
• The group continued across the desert and came upon a market where corpses, including those of children and infants, lay drained of blood essence.
• Desert gray wolves prowled among the bodies and continued feeding as Chen Feng and the others looked on.

Chen Feng and the Heavenly Saint Academy disciples entered a snowbound ancient city while pursuing horse bandits. A powerful shadow attacked Wang Hao, and Chen Feng drove it off, leaving the group wary of an ambush.

• Zhuang Wu and Wang Hao identified the horse bandits' massacre and urged the group to pursue them.
• After several days, the group reached a deserted ancient city where heavy snow was falling.
• The city gates slammed shut after the disciples entered, and eerie crowlike cries echoed through the streets.
• A dark shadow attacked Wang Hao, but Chen Feng struck it with a punch and sent it flying away.
• Zhuang Wu warned that the shadow was powerful and feared they had entered a horse bandit ambush.

Chen Feng and the Heavenly Saint Academy disciples were surrounded by a bloodthirsty bandit leader and hundreds of experts. As the bandits attacked, Chen Feng summoned real lightning, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• A poisonous mist engulfed the group, but Chen Feng’s true qi kept it away from him.
• Wang Hao fired a signal, while a pale, fanged bandit leader appeared and summoned hundreds of bandits around them.
• The bandit leader claimed Chen Feng for himself and ordered his men to divide up the others.
• As the bandits charged and Zhuang Wu’s group despaired, Chen Feng roared, “Summon Lightning!”
• A huge bolt of lightning struck the bandit leader before he could reach Chen Feng.

Chen Feng killed the bandits attacking the city with his Lightning Technique, leaving Zhuang Wu, Wang Hao, and the others awed and grateful. When several dozen Heavenly Saint Academy disciples arrived to answer the fireworks, they found the bandits already dead and looked for whoever had defeated them.

• Chen Feng struck down the bandits with lightning before Zhuang Wu and the others could act.
• Zhuang Wu, Wang Hao, and the others praised Chen Feng and thanked him for saving their lives.
• Several dozen Heavenly Saint Academy disciples rode to the city after seeing the fireworks.
• The arriving disciples found the bandits dead and wondered who had killed them.
• One of the leading senior brothers rode over to Chen Feng and the others.

Chen Feng and a group from Heavenly Saint Academy traveled to Loulan Ancient City, where countless bloodsucking bandits had made their stronghold. As more than a thousand academy disciples arrived, the group prepared to face the bandits and seize the city’s resources.

• Tian Chong praised Chen Feng’s skill and invited him to join Heavenly Saint Academy, but Chen Feng declined because he preferred to be on his own.
• Chen Feng, Zhuang Wu, and the others followed Tian Chong’s group toward Loulan Ancient City.
• The group hid near the ruined city and saw thousands of red-clad bandits patrolling through the snow.
• Zhuang Wu and Wang Hao explained that the bandits cultivated an evil blood-absorbing technique that made them stronger.
• More than a thousand Heavenly Saint Academy disciples arrived to train by eliminating the bandits and claim the resources stored in the city.