Chapter Summaries

Heavenly Saint Academy disciples led by Li Yi attacked the bandits, while Wang Hao’s group stayed back. Chen Feng decided to enter the city alone to seek treasure and kill bandits for Demon Suppression Value.

• Li Yi led the Heavenly Saint Academy disciples into battle, cutting down bandits as cannon fire struck their ranks.
• Wang Hao refused to join the attack because his group was too small and weak.
• Zhuang Wu warned that the bandits had many experts and mentioned the treasure inside the city.
• Chen Feng decided to enter the city, believing his late True Qi Realm strength would let him defeat the bandits and find treasure.
• Chen Feng charged inward while Wang Hao and the others watched from behind.

Chen Feng charged into the bandit-held city, cutting through its forces and finding pools where vampire bandits absorbed blood. He reached a powerful Red-haired leader, who attacked him with a vicious whip.

• Chen Feng killed the bandits in his path and leaped over the city wall into the ruined city.
• Tian Chong and the other Heavenly Saint Academy disciples watched Chen Feng’s strength in alarm and recognized him as an ally.
• Chen Feng moved deeper through the city, seeing blood-drained corpses and avoiding pursuing bandits.
• Chen Feng found vampire bandits absorbing blood in pools and concealed his aura as he climbed to a former tavern’s top floor.
• A Red-haired leader spotted Chen Feng and sent a violent whip strike at him, which Chen Feng dodged.

Chen Feng forced a red-furred bandit to reveal how to reach Loulan Ancient City's hidden treasure trove, then entered the underground passage beneath the moat. He reached a massive iron gate deep below the city.

• Chen Feng defeated the red-furred bandit and demanded to know where the treasures were hidden.
• The bandit revealed that the treasures lay in a passage twenty meters underground at the center of Loulan Ancient City, and Chen Feng killed him after learning how to enter.
• Chen Feng took a blood-red crystal from the bandit's body and made his way to the moat beyond which stood Loulan's Imperial Palace.
• Chen Feng found the hidden mechanism beneath the moat, broke through the stone floor, and entered the underwater passage.
• Chen Feng followed the passage to a massive iron gate.

Chen Feng broke through the bandits’ deadly mechanisms and looted their underground treasure chamber. After swallowing a Golden Tiger Pill, he reached the peak true qi realm and left with his strength greatly increased.

• Chen Feng charged through the passage’s blades and other mechanisms, smashing through a wall to escape a flood trap.
• Chen Feng destroyed the remaining traps and blasted open the final door to the treasure chamber.
• Chen Feng stored tens of thousands of medicinal pills, gold, silver, and demonic beast Crystal Cores in the system space.
• Chen Feng found a golden pill, swallowed it, and broke through to the peak true qi realm.
• Chen Feng looted the chamber’s most valuable treasures.

Chen Feng emerged into Loulan’s Imperial City main hall with the treasures he had taken, where the bandits’ chief and a Heavenly Saint Academy expert demanded that he hand them over. Chen Feng easily struck them down with lightning and prepared to leave.

• Chen Feng came up through an iron plate into the blood-soaked main hall of Loulan’s Imperial City.
• The bandits’ chief recognized Chen Feng as the one who had taken his treasured pill and demanded his stolen treasures back.
• A young expert from Heavenly Saint Academy also demanded the treasures, and he and the chief agreed to join forces against Chen Feng.
• Chen Feng refused to surrender the treasures, and the young man and the chief attacked him together.
• Chen Feng struck both attackers with lightning, shattered their protective qi, and left them coughing up blood.

Chen Feng used the treasure’s power to slaughter bandits and rapidly gain Demon Suppression Value during the Heavenly Saint Academy training expedition. He broke through to early-stage Meridian Opening and advanced the Five Thunder Curse to Purple Thunder before the fleeing bandits left him with no targets, so he went to find Zhuang Wu, Wang Hao, and the others.

• Chen Feng escaped the two pursuers, who turned on each other after failing to seize the treasure.
• Chen Feng returned to the bandit-filled outskirts and used lightning to kill bandits, easing the pressure on Heavenly Saint Academy disciples.
• Chen Feng spent Demon Suppression Value to reach early-stage Meridian Opening.
• Chen Feng raised the Five Thunder Curse to its third level, Purple Thunder, and killed dozens of bandits with a single bolt.
• The remaining bandits fled from Chen Feng, who headed outside the city to rejoin Zhuang Wu, Wang Hao, and the others.

Chen Feng returned from the bandits’ treasure trove and gave Zhuang Wu, Wang Hao, and the others hundreds of Origin Energy Pills each. As they consumed the pills, Chen Feng watched Heavenly Saint Academy defeat the bandit chief and considered returning.

• Zhuang Wu and Wang Hao worried about Chen Feng while they killed scattered bandits outside the city.
• Chen Feng returned unharmed, surprising the group with how quickly he had entered and left.
• Chen Feng gave Zhuang Wu, Wang Hao, and the others hundreds of Origin Energy Pills, explaining that he had taken the treasure trove’s contents.
• Chen Feng and the others saw a Heavenly Saint Academy disciple kill the bandit chief with a single sword strike.
• Zhuang Wu, Wang Hao, and the others swallowed the pills while Chen Feng watched the surviving bandits flee and thought about returning.

After parting ways with Zhuang Wu and Wang Hao, Chen Feng traveled to Bright Moon Village, where he sensed a demonic presence. He offered to help the constables confronting the demon, but Captain Yang and the others laughed at him.

• The bandits collapsed after their leader was slain, and Heavenly Saint Academy's disciples hunted down the fleeing survivors.
• Chen Feng said farewell to Zhuang Wu, Wang Hao, and the others, who returned with Heavenly Saint Academy.
• Chen Feng left the desert and reached Bright Moon Village, where he sensed a demonic aura.
• Captain Yang warned Chen Feng to leave because a dangerous demon was in the village.
• Chen Feng offered to slay the demon, and Captain Yang and the other constables laughed at him.

Chen Feng entered a village filled with a chilling demonic aura and explored a wealthy family's house despite the constables' warnings. After a bronze mirror altered his perception of the courtyard, he heard eerie crying and laughter as children’s figures flashed past.

• Chen Feng ignored Captain Yang and the constables and walked into the village.
• Chen Feng passed gruesome corpses and followed the strongest cold aura to a large house.
• Chen Feng opened the gates to the house’s inner courtyard and entered a room with a bronze mirror.
• Chen Feng stared into the mirror, and his surroundings appeared abandoned for decades.
• Chen Feng heard unsettling crying turn into laughter as several children's figures darted through the darkness.

Chen Feng fought the Strange Creatures haunting the area and traced their presence to a suspicious tree in the courtyard. After striking the tree, he heard the creature scream, but its fate remained unknown.

• Chen Feng destroyed a Strange Creature that had disguised children's corpses as playing children and a human head as a ball.
• Chen Feng battled a stronger Strange Creature possessing a rotting human body, forcing its true shadow to flee.
• Chen Feng searched the courtyard for the object anchoring the creature and noticed a large tree with yellow leaves.
• Chen Feng rushed at the tree, slashed at the hands that emerged from it, and heard the Strange Creature scream in pain.
• Chen Feng swiftly slashed toward the large tree.

Chen Feng killed a demon hiding inside a tree and left the courtyard unharmed. Captain Yang and the constables entered afterward and confirmed that Chen Feng had truly defeated it.

• Chen Feng cut down the bloodied tree and slashed the shadow that fled from it, destroying the demon.
• Captain Yang and the constables waited at the village entrance and assumed Chen Feng had died inside.
• Chen Feng came out unharmed, told Captain Yang that he had killed the demon, and continued on his way.
• Captain Yang persuaded the constables to enter the courtyard, where they found the felled tree, corpses, and signs of battle.
• Captain Yang and the constables realized Chen Feng had killed the demon and praised his ruthlessness.

After wandering for over a month, Chen Feng reached Ding Prefecture and watched Zhou Bai and his companion try to sell pills by claiming their temple had inherited an immortal's secret arts. The chapter left them displaying their supposed Little Spring Pills to the crowd.

• Captain Yang and the others reported that the demon troubles in the surrounding area had been resolved.
• Chen Feng wandered aimlessly for over a month, then decided to visit the Capital City after learning Ding Prefecture lay ahead.
• Chen Feng entered crowded Ding Prefecture, where he saw merchants, ships, foreign delegations, and many Daoists.
• Zhou Bai introduced himself as a disciple of Tianxian Temple, but a skeptical voice in the crowd said no one had heard of it.
• Zhou Bai and his companion spun a tale about an immortal's legacy and claimed their Little Spring Pills could cure illness and strengthen the healthy.
• Zhou Bai poured several pills into his palm and showed them to the crowd.

Chen Feng watched Zhou Bai and Fang Yu fail to sell their pills, then listened as the siblings discussed their limits and the mysteries of their inherited cauldron. Zhou Bai worried that they would lose their Daoist registration and temple if they could not find a way to earn money.

• Chen Feng examined the pills and recognized that they contained ingredients that could improve health, though their claimed miraculous effects remained uncertain.
• Zhou Bai boasted about the pills, but the crowd refused to buy them, so he left with Fang Yu and pulled their cart himself.
• Fang Yu said their pills were only ordinary pills and wondered whether true immortal pills existed; Zhou Bai dismissed the cauldron and its supposed powers as fabrications.
• The siblings discussed rumors of immortals, and Zhou Bai warned that the Sitian Jian might revoke their registration and take their temple if they could not earn money.
• Zhou Bai joked about becoming a beggar, and Fang Yu teased him for acting as though he had begged before.

Zhou Bai proposed visiting wealthy households to promote the pills, but at Tianxian Temple, Chen Feng shattered the Stone Cauldron’s stone casing and revealed a Green Bronze Cauldron. The blast reached Dingfu City, where senior Daoists turned toward the noise.

• Zhou Bai told Fang Yu he planned to offer the pills to sickly people in wealthy households so their recommendations would make the medicine famous.
• At Tianxian Temple, Chen Feng examined the Stone Cauldron and introduced himself to Zhou Bai and Fang Yu as a wandering Daoist.
• Chen Feng struck the Stone Cauldron until its stone shell broke apart, exposing a Green Bronze Cauldron.
• The roar from the cauldron reached Dingfu City, and several elderly Daoists opened their eyes and looked toward the distant sound.

Chen Feng activated the Kunlun Cauldron and began refining pills while Zhou Bai, Fang Yu, and nearby Daoists watched in astonishment. He continued refining as the observers waited, leaving the pill-making process ongoing.

• Several Daoists heard the Kunlun Cauldron ring and hurried to investigate, fearing the sound might attract demonic cultivators.
• Zhou Bai and Fang Yu wondered whether the powerful young Daoist they had seen was the rumored Young Immortal.
• Chen Feng sent energy into the Kunlun Cauldron, awakening its Flame Array and causing it to rise and open.
• Chen Feng added medicinal ingredients and used his system-bought formulas and alchemy insights to refine them.
• Daoists watching from a distant mountaintop observed Chen Feng refine pills for a long time while Zhou Bai and Fang Yu watched beside him.

Chen Feng refined hundreds of pills in the Kunlun Cauldron while Zhou Bai and Fang Yu watched in awe. When Taoist priests arrived to investigate, they mistook Chen Feng for a powerful immortal and fled, leaving Zhou Bai to pay his respects.

• Fang Yu told Zhou Bai that Chen Feng's pill refinement was too extraordinary for them to learn.
• Chen Feng finished refining more than five hundred pills, collected them, and tasted a few.
• A group of Taoist priests arrived, worried that a demon or monster had activated the Kunlun Cauldron.
• Chen Feng levitated, and the Taoist priests fled after an old Taoist recognized him as an expert.
• Zhou Bai cupped his hands and paid respects to Chen Feng as an immortal.

Chen Feng refused to take Zhou Bai and Fang Yu’s Immortal Cauldron, but gave them cultivation methods and a life-preserving stone formation. After leaving, he examined Zhou Bai’s alchemy book, while the Daoists who had fled returned to the Sitian Jian in panic.

• Zhou Bai and Fang Yu offered Chen Feng the Immortal Cauldron and their ancestral alchemy recipe, fearing the cauldron would bring trouble.
• Chen Feng refused to take the cauldron and promised to seal it into its previous state, but agreed to take it after Zhou Bai explained the danger it posed.
• Zhou Bai asked Chen Feng to accept him and Fang Yu as disciples, but Chen Feng refused and instead gave them cultivation methods and a life-preserving stone formation.
• Chen Feng left and examined Zhou Bai’s alchemy book, finding that it could be useful for reference.
• The Daoists who had fled returned to the Sitian Jian, still shaken by Chen Feng’s flying technique.

After Chen Feng’s display of power frightened the local Daoists, they speculated that he was the Young Immortal and decided to approach him. The next morning, Void Daoist visited Chen Feng and greeted him as an immortal.

• The old Daoist warned his subordinates that the flying stranger might be an immortal or a demon and that they could not afford to provoke him.
• A Daoist suggested the stranger was the Young Immortal, known for destroying the Five Poisons Cult, and the group decided to bring him gifts and confirm his identity.
• The Daoists worried that the Young Immortal’s arrival might signal a major conflict in the Capital City.
• Chen Feng stayed at Zhou Bai and Fang Yu’s home after they urged him not to leave late at night, then ate breakfast and meditated.
• Void Daoist led several Daoists to visit Chen Feng and greeted him as an immortal.

Chen Feng’s accumulated merits brought him to Yang Xiaotian’s office, where he encountered Wang Jie, a powerful envoy from the provincial capital. The chapter ended as Wang Jie woke and fixed his hawk-like gaze on the newcomers.

• Chen Feng’s records showed that he had earned roughly five hundred merit points by killing aberrations.
• Yang Wei excitedly brought Chen Feng to the top floor to see Yang Xiaotian.
• Yang Xiaotian worked on analyzing aberrations in Qingshui City and the Enchantress’s movements in Beihu City while Wang Jie slept beside him.
• Yang Wei opened the office door and woke Wang Jie, who frowned at the disturbance.
• Yang Xiaotian treated Wang Jie with deep respect because the Outer Strength expert held considerable authority within the Demon Suppression Division.

Demon Suppression Envoy Wang Jie questioned Yang Xiaotian’s leadership after recognizing Chen Feng’s exceptional strength. The chapter ended with Wang Jie insisting that Chen Feng had reached Peak Manifest Strength, leaving Yang Xiaotian stunned by how quickly he had advanced.

• Yang Xiaotian introduced Wang Jie, a Demon Suppression Envoy from Wutian City, to Chen Feng and Yang Wei.
• Wang Jie stared at Chen Feng and asked Yang Xiaotian whether Chen Feng was truly a Demon Suppressor.
• Wang Jie challenged Yang Xiaotian for assigning a Peak Manifest Strength expert to an ordinary rank instead of promoting him to captain or chief captain.
• Yang Xiaotian and Yang Wei reacted in shock as Wang Jie confirmed that Chen Feng had reached Peak Manifest Strength.
• Yang Xiaotian protested that Chen Feng could not have advanced so far in only a few days, but Wang Jie stood by his assessment.