Chapter Summaries

Zhou You refused to surrender his chance at personal instruction from the Prefect Lord and challenged Chu Weisheng, the martial guild vice president, to take it by force. Zhou You defeated Chu Weisheng in a hammer fight, leaving Yan Baihu astonished by his strength.

• Chu Weisheng invoked his authority as martial guild vice president and ordered Zhou You to hand over the opportunity, while Qin Lie urged Zhou You to yield for now.
• Zhou You rejected Chu Weisheng's demand and challenged him to take the opportunity if he could.
• Chu Weisheng brought out the Diamond Stance and attacked Zhou You with the Soaring Dragon Diamond Stance.
• Zhou You countered with his twin great hammers, meeting Chu Weisheng's strength head-on and striking him repeatedly.
• Zhou You's twin hammers launched Chu Weisheng into the air and slammed him to the ground, impressing Yan Baihu.

Zhou You rejected Chu Weisheng and the martial world leaders’ demands, refusing to surrender his opportunity or submit to their threats. Yan Wanjun escalated the confrontation by invoking Yanshan’s power, and Elder Gu finally appeared to face him.

• Chu Weisheng’s helpers accused Zhou You of attacking unfairly and urged him to apologize, but Zhou You told them to take what they wanted by force.
• The martial world leaders threatened to revoke Zhou You’s right to run the Da Qian Martial Arts School, while Yan Baihu refused to take their side.
• Yan Wanjun stepped forward, demanded Zhou You leave, and warned that opposing him meant opposing Yanshan and the Overlord Martial Arts School.
• Zhou You asked Yan Wanjun whether he meant to become his enemy, and Yan Wanjun declared that Zhou had disrupted his seclusion and made an enemy of the Overlord Martial Arts School.
• Elder Gu revealed himself and declared that Yan Wanjun had forced him to leave seclusion early.

Zhou You used the puppet inhabited by Kunpeng Son to make Yan Wanjun and the other Yanshan representatives believe Elder Gu was a pseudo-Mighty Martial whose breakthrough they had interrupted. Yanshan heard their report and weighed the threat as Qin Shang offered his interpretation of Elder Gu’s Heavenly Treasure.

• Zhou You had the puppet reveal a trace of Mighty Martial aura and accuse Yan Wanjun’s group of interrupting Elder Gu’s breakthrough; Yan Baihu identified him as a pseudo-Mighty Martial.
• The puppet gave Yan Wanjun a white mushroom Heavenly Treasure and warned that Yanshan would decide whether they were friends or enemies.
• Yan Wanjun and Chu Weisheng rushed back to the Overlord Martial Arts School, while Zhou You reassured the martial artists who had stood with him.
• Yan Wanjun and the others knelt before Yanshan, who rebuked Yan Wanjun for provoking Elder Gu and summoned Qin Shang.
• Qin Shang told Yanshan that Elder Gu had sent the Heavenly Treasure to signal caution and avoid an open conflict.

Yanshan punished Yan Wanjun for offending Zhou You and endangering Old Gu, forcing him to kneel at Da Qian Martial Arts School and beg forgiveness. Zhou You accepted the apology, and as Yan Wanjun’s influence collapsed, Zhou You’s reputation and his school’s standing rose, though he chose to avoid political entanglements and focus on cultivation.

• Yanshan stripped Yan Wanjun of his position and ordered him to carry brambles and kneel at Da Qian Martial Arts School until Zhou You answered.
• Qin Shang became the Overlord Martial Arts School’s chief disciple, while Yan Wanjun was forced to kowtow and accept his punishment.
• The next day, Yan Wanjun walked barefoot to Da Qian Martial Arts School and knelt beneath its signboard as rumors about Old Gu’s interrupted breakthrough spread through the city.
• Zhou You met with his family, settled his affairs, and then placed a bramble branch on Yan Wanjun’s shoulder before telling him he could leave.
• Yan Wanjun’s era ended, Qin Shang took over the school’s affairs, and Chu Weisheng and his group gradually vanished from the prefectural city.
• Zhou You and Da Qian Martial Arts School gained fame and offers of support, but Zhou You declined involvement and chose to cultivate quietly.

Zhou You taught Qi Fengzi until she was ready to become an Herbal Alchemist, then realized the Palm Martial Arts School might help him learn from the Prefectural Lord. The System Panel revealed an option to reverse the school, but activating it required 500,000 Experience Points.

• Zhou You examined Qi Fengzi’s Silver Tide Whale Swallowing Pill and praised her successful refinement.
• Zhou You taught Qi Fengzi the Medicine King Canon for five days and five nights, preparing her to pass the Herbal Alchemist assessment.
• Qi Fengzi quietly declared her willingness to be with Zhou You, but he mistook her words for muttering to herself.
• Zhou You gathered materials through Xingrentang and began refining the medicinal solution for processing the Blood Pearl.
• Zhou You connected the Palm Martial Arts School’s teaching effects with the Prefectural Lord’s promised instruction and wished he could learn as effectively.
• The System Panel offered to activate Reverse Palm Martial Arts School for 500,000 Experience Points, and Zhou You read the option with excitement.

Zhou You activated the Reverse Palm Martial Arts School and used its power to improve Zuo Shi'er's blade training and absorb Yan Baihu's teachings. Yan Baihu then asked about Zhou You's Tiger Ghoul technique, which Zhou You attributed to his master, Wang Jianxiong.

• Zhou You spent 500,000 Experience Points to activate the Reverse Palm Martial Arts School, which let him learn by receiving instruction.
• Zhou You listened to Zuo Shi'er describe his Twin Blades practice and used the Reverse Palm Martial Arts School to refine its insights.
• Yan Baihu visited the school and explained principles connecting Dayin Mountain's blade arts to fist arts.
• Zhou You absorbed Yan Baihu's teachings and spent 100,000 Experience Points to fuse the Twin Blades and Tiger Form Blade into the Twin-Pointed Tiger Blade Path.
• Yan Baihu asked Zhou You about the secret technique that let a Tiger Ghoul leave the body, and Zhou You said Wang Jianxiong had passed it down to him.

Zhou You traded the second level of the Tiger Ghoul Substitute Technique to Yan Baihu for Mirror Round Thousand Gold Paste, a medicine that could repair damaged weapons. Yan Baihu left to cultivate the technique in hopes of removing his Human-Faced Sores, while Zhou You was left wondering about the eerie cries coming from Yan Baihu.

• Yan Baihu explained that Dayin Mountain knew the Tiger Ghoul Substitute Technique, but no one there could make the tiger ghoul leave the body, and he asked Zhou You to teach him the method.
• Yan Baihu revealed that the Prefect Lord had traced Zhou You through a battle scene reconstructed from lingering Blood Qi, then offered a Storage Pouch in exchange for the technique.
• Zhou You refused the Storage Pouch, so Yan Baihu offered Mirror Round Thousand Gold Paste, which could restore damaged weapons without reforging them.
• Zhou You accepted the exchange, and Yan Baihu obtained the second level of the technique, hoping it would eliminate his Human-Faced Sores.
• Yan Baihu departed to cultivate, and Zhou You heard a woman's faint weeping from him and wondered what secrets the Ferocious General concealed.

Zhou You restored a broken Corpse Whipping Whip with Mirror Round Thousand Gold Paste and considered how weapons could turn the tide of battle. He decided to investigate Fierce Beast Prison as a source of powerful materials and remembered that Tao Zhu Gong might know its secrets.

• Zhou You used Mirror Round Thousand Gold Paste to repair the broken whip and restored it as the Calamity Bewitching Treasure Corpse Whipping Whip, which could make corpses reveal what they knew.
• Zhou You put away the remaining ointment and reflected on how the battle against the shamans had damaged weapons and drained both sides' resources.
• Zhou You sent seized Northern Territory ore to Zhou Family Village so its craftsmen could forge weapons for his forces.
• Zhou You realized that materials from powerful bewitching creatures could further strengthen weapons and identified Fierce Beast Prison as a possible source.
• Zhou You remembered that Tao Zhu Gong had been imprisoned in Fierce Beast Prison and might know its underground conditions.

Tao Zhu Gong was unexpectedly seized from Fierce Beast Prison and brought before Mo Yunzi, who revealed that the seal script let him send Tao Zhu Gong back and forth at will. The chapter left Tao Zhu Gong trapped in a repeating cycle of imprisonment and release under Zhou You’s control.

• Tao Zhu Gong gambled with the prisoners in Fierce Beast Prison, collecting their bones and seeking hidden Calamity Bewitcher remains.
• The seal script in Tao Zhu Gong’s chest awakened, and an aged voice called for him before its power pulled him out of the prison.
• Tao Zhu Gong appeared before Mo Yunzi, who explained that the seal script’s connection could seize him repeatedly.
• Zhou You pointed at Tao Zhu Gong and sent him back to Fierce Beast Prison, where Tao Zhu Gong begged to be released.
• Zhou You used the seal script again, enveloping Tao Zhu Gong in light.

Zhou You forced Tao Zhu Gong to serve him by gathering Calamity Fiend Remains in Fierce Beast Prison, and learned that the Dao Lord’s forces were targeting the six northern provinces. After sending Tao Zhu Gong back, Zhou You used the Hidden Bewitcher Remains he had acquired to strengthen his weapons and plan equipment for his allies.

• Zhou You rejected Tao Zhu Gong’s offer of Hidden Bewitcher Remains and gave him the choice of becoming an undercover agent or returning to Fierce Beast Prison to gather ten portions of Calamity Fiend Remains.
• Tao Zhu Gong chose the prison arrangement, negotiated occasional trips outside, and warned Zhou You that the Dao Lord’s forces targeted the six northern provinces and that another powerful figure might take command of Northern Xuan.
• Zhou You wagered that if he killed the next enemy, Tao Zhu Gong would reveal everything he knew about the Fuji Organization and the Dao Lord, then sent Tao Zhu Gong back to Fierce Beast Prison.
• Zhou You sorted Tao Zhu Gong’s items and decided to use the Hidden Bewitcher Remains to strengthen his spear and equip Qi Qingdi, Zuo Lü, Lan Chengxiu, and his other allies.
• Zhou You fused Great Hidden Bewitcher Remains into the Iron Spear’s tip with Blood Qi, increasing its sturdiness and sharpness.

Zhou You traveled to the underground cave and harvested hundreds of Blood Pearls. After releasing the Great Earthworm to guard the next crop, he discovered a preserved corpse buried beneath the soil and prepared to question it with the Corpse Whipping Whip.

• Zhou You finished forging a Hidden Bewitcher Treasure short staff for Qi Qingdi and prepared medicinal liquid to preserve Blood Pearls.
• Zhou You used the Seal Script "Bind" to travel from the prefectural city to the underground cave.
• Zhou You harvested roughly three to four hundred Blood Pearls and assured the Great Snake it would receive its share.
• Zhou You released the Great Earthworm and told it to guard the Blood Pearls, but it dug up a preserved corpse.
• Zhou You took out the Corpse Whipping Whip and lashed the corpse to learn its identity and why it had died underground.

Zhou You questioned the corpse of Pu Tiegan, a former Black Cloud Mountain disciple, and learned about the sect’s hidden hope and five other Medicine Fields. He took the Blood Pearls and left to investigate the leads, determined to uncover the secret encoded in a children’s song.

• Zhou You whipped Pu Tiegan’s corpse and learned that he had guarded a Medicine Field for Black Cloud Mountain.
• Zhou You asked whether Black Cloud Mountain had left a path to revival, and Pu Tiegan said its hope lay in a widely known children’s song.
• Pu Tiegan revealed the locations of five other Medicine Fields, and Zhou You planned to send the Great Crane and Great Snake to investigate them.
• After Pu Tiegan’s body turned to ashes, Zhou You buried his remains and vowed to inherit Black Cloud Mountain’s legacy.
• Zhou You ordered people to collect versions of the children’s song, stored the dried Blood Pearls, and departed on the Great Snake after telling the Great Earthworm to guard the site.

Zhou You arranged for the Great Crane and Great Snake to search for treasures, then hurried overnight to the Prefect Lord’s palace garden for another lecture. He arrived behind several rivals and stood among the gathered martial artists as the bell rang at dawn.

• Zhou You left the Great Earthworm to guard the cave and sent the Great Crane and Great Snake to investigate four locations in Northern Xuan Prefecture, rewarding them with five Blood Pearls each.
• Zhou You learned that Yan Wanjun had gone to the shaman-border regions and inferred that Yanshan was secretly arranging a search for Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
• After receiving notice to attend the Prefect Lord’s lectures, Zhou You departed at midnight with the Reverse Palm Martial Arts School held in his palm.
• At the palace garden, Zhou You met Liu Jingguo and learned that the ancient rammed-earth structure had survived from the era when the Grandmaster built the city.
• Zhou You and Liu Jingguo arrived after Liu Fengji, Yan Baihu, and several others, then joined the gathered martial artists before the Prefect Lord.
• At dawn, the great bell rang by itself.

During the Prefectural Lord’s three-day lecture, Liu Fengji and Yan Baihu comprehended the Mighty Warrior Omen while Zhou You advanced his mission toward condensing a Grandmaster’s Mark. As the lecture neared its end, the Prefectural Lord gave Zhou You the final chance to ask a question.

• The Prefectural Lord led the lecture by discussing fist martial arts with Liu Fengji, while Zhou You benefited from the System Panel’s synchronized inheritance.
• After listening for a day and night, Liu Fengji comprehended the Mighty Warrior Omen and began digesting his breakthrough.
• Liu Jingguo encouraged Zhou You to seek recognition by achieving the omen and jokingly offered him marriage prospects, while Zhou You told her he was already married.
• Yan Baihu comprehended the Mighty Warrior Omen near the end of the second day, and Zhou You’s Grandmaster’s Mark passed the halfway point during the third day.
• With less than fifteen minutes left in the lecture, the Prefectural Lord noticed Zhou You and invited him to ask the final question.

Zhou You condensed a Grandmaster's Mark after receiving the Prefectural Lord's guidance and discussed maintaining their ties with Liu Jingguo. As they reached a busy district, a gigantic golden tiger appeared in the city, leaving Zhou You and Liu Jingguo facing an unknown threat.

• Zhou You asked the Prefectural Lord about advancing from Intermediate Martial Master to Advanced Martial Master and took his advice to heart.
• Zhou You's Grandmaster's Mark condensed, completing the six-star trial and earning him 350,000 Experience Points.
• Liu Jingguo advised Zhou You to maintain their bond with the Prefectural Lord and their ties as his Three-Day Disciples.
• Zhou You and Liu Jingguo encountered panic in the streets after reports of a tiger attacking people, and they stayed to investigate.
• A five-meter-tall golden tiger appeared before Zhou You and Liu Jingguo.

Zhou You and Liu Jingguo encountered the enormous tiger carrying Tiger Corpse into the prefectural city, and learned that it was the transformed body of a Mighty Martial expert. After hearing Zhou You’s history, Tiger Corpse recognized him as a worthy grand-disciple, ending the Tiger Fist line’s hostility toward him.

• Liu Jingguo attacked the giant tiger, but her Hidden Bewitcher Treasures could not harm its armored fur, while Zhou You identified tiger baleful intent and realized it was not a phantom.
• The girl riding the tiger revealed herself as Tiger Corpse’s concubine and ordered Zhou You and Liu Jingguo aside; Liu Jingguo recognized the Tiger Fist ancestor and explained who he was.
• Yu Jiuzhang and the City Gate Guards escorted Tiger Corpse through the city to meet the Guard Commander.
• Zhou You learned that Tiger Corpse had transformed himself into a tiger and that the girl spoke for him.
• Tiger Corpse asked Yu Jiuzhang about Zhou You, and Zheng Qing recounted Zhou You’s history and accomplishments.
• Tiger Corpse praised Zhou You as a talent and accepted him as his grand-disciple, prompting the Tiger Fist martial masters to stop troubling him.

Zhou You learned that several Mighty Warriors had arrived in the prefectural city, including figures from Dayin Mountain, the Liu Family, and Wanxiu Mountain, suggesting a major event was approaching. Meanwhile, Zhengming Martial Arts School received a challenge from Pang Jihui, and Xue Zhengming vowed to fight him to the death.

• Liu Jingguo told Zhou You that her family had summoned her to meet her great-aunt's husband, a Mighty Warrior who had come to the prefectural city.
• Li Hao visited Zhou You and explained that he had accompanied Wanxiu Mountain's newly promoted Mighty Warrior, Lianzi Xiu, on an official trip to the city.
• Zhou You realized that Mighty Warriors were gathering in the prefectural city for an unknown major event, though he lacked the status to learn more.
• Xue Zhengming prepared Zhengming Martial Arts School for the return of its famous former member, a Mighty Warrior.
• Pang Jihui sent a challenge to Zhengming Martial Arts School, and Xue Zhengming vowed not to rest until one of them was dead.

Liu Chengen tricked Pang Jihui into challenging Zhengming Martial Arts School, whose connection to a powerful Strong Martial expert made the challenge perilous. Pang realized Liu had set him up to face ruin, and feared others would attack his family to win favor with Baishi Wu.

• Liu Chengen hosted Pang Jihui at a banquet and revealed he had submitted a challenge letter to Zhengming Martial Arts School in Pang’s name.
• A fellow martial artist warned Pang that Zhengming Martial Arts School was protected by its former disciple Baishi Wu, who had broken through to Strong Martial.
• The martial artist recounted how Baishi Wu had studied under Xue Zhengming for ten years before revealing his identity and leaving as a Strong Martial expert.
• Pang understood that Liu had deliberately pushed him into provoking Baishi Wu and feared that his family would be targeted.

Liu Chengen conspired with a Yan family martial instructor to frame Zhou You and destroy Pang Jihui’s family, then secretly poisoned the instructor to cover his tracks. After Zhou You refused to see Pang Jihui, Pang Jihui gave up hope of saving himself and asked Zhou You to take in Pang Xuan'er.

• Liu Chengen agreed to a plan to frame Zhou You and claim Pang Xuan'er and Qi Fengzi, then poisoned the Yan family martial instructor after their meeting.
• Pang Jihui brought Pang Xuan'er to the Da Qian Martial Arts School, hoping to speak with Zhou You, but Zhou You refused to meet him.
• Zhou You ordered Zuo Shi'er to keep Pang Jihui away and protect his parents from being drawn into the crisis.
• Pang Jihui learned that his friends and relatives had abandoned him and that his family had been driven from their rented home.
• Pang Jihui told Pang Xuan'er to wait for Zhou You and seek a place in his household, then asked Zuo Lü to tell Zhou You to take in his granddaughter after his death.

At Zhengming Martial Arts School, Xue Zhengming tried to calm a gathering of martial masters while others blamed Zhou You for the conflict. On the way to Zhengming Martial Arts School, Pang Jihui was ambushed by a retainer of Liu Chengen who planned to frame Zhou You, but Zuo Lü and Qi Qingdi captured the attacker alive and took Pang Jihui back with them.

• Xue Zhengming told the visiting martial masters he wanted to settle his grievance with Pang Jihui peacefully, though the others urged him to confront Zhou You.
• A cold-faced martial master ambushed Pang Jihui and revealed his plan to kill him and make it appear that he had fled, turning Xue Zhengming against Zhou You.
• Zuo Lü attacked the cold-faced martial master, and Qi Qingdi struck him with a Hidden Bewitcher Treasure that weakened his Blood Qi.
• Zuo Lü dislocated the attacker’s joints, and he and Qi Qingdi bound him and put him in a water cart.
• Pang Jihui asked to go with Zuo Lü and Qi Qingdi, and they took him back to Da Qian Martial Arts School.