Chapter Summaries

Chen Xiaofan and the Young Girl were surrounded by bandits who had buried the gold and silver they found. As their Great Grandmaster leader attacked Chen Xiaofan with a hammer, the bandits believed he was doomed.

• Chen Xiaofan realized the approaching bandits were enraged because he had found their buried treasure and decided to kill anyone who attacked him.
• The bandits surrounded Chen Xiaofan and the Young Girl, and their Great Grandmaster leader’s pressure nearly made her collapse.
• Chen Xiaofan pulled the Young Girl into his arms and easily kept her standing against the Great Grandmaster’s pressure.
• The Great Grandmaster mistook Chen Xiaofan’s strength for the effect of a pill, drew his spiked hammer, and swung it at him.
• The bandits watched with hostility, believing Chen Xiaofan had stolen the gold and silver they had buried after a series of robberies.

Chen Xiaofan used one finger to shatter a bandit's massive hammer, terrifying the bandits who had tried to rob him. The bandits realized he was an unfathomably powerful expert and feared for their lives.

• The bandits surrounded Chen Xiaofan and the Young Girl, intending to kill them.
• Chen Xiaofan met a bandit's hammer with one finger and split it apart.
• The Great Grandmaster bandit realized Chen Xiaofan was far beyond his level and feared he would be killed.
• The other bandits recoiled in terror and looked to their leader, who regretted confronting Chen Xiaofan.

Chen Xiaofan accepted a bandit chief’s money in exchange for sparing his life and ordered him and his men to become righteous heroes. The bandits fled, leaving Chen Xiaofan to continue on his way.

• The bandit chief begged Chen Xiaofan to spare his life, then offered him 1.4 million Silver Notes as a payment.
• The bandit chief explained that he led Erlong Mountain’s bandits, who were fleeing an official crackdown with their accumulated treasure.
• Chen Xiaofan accepted the money and told the chief and his men to leave and stop being bandits.
• The bandits thanked Chen Xiaofan and hurried away, promising to become good people.

Chen Xiaofan and the Young Girl continued toward Mount Wudang, but her sprained ankle left them struggling to travel on foot. They stopped a passing carriage to ask for a ride, and its master came out after waking.

• Chen Xiaofan left with the Young Girl to return to Mount Wudang, while she felt grateful to have him as her protector.
• The Young Girl became exhausted and sprained her ankle during their journey, so Chen Xiaofan carried her for a while.
• Chen Xiaofan spotted a carriage traveling in their direction and brought the Young Girl over to ask for a ride in exchange for payment.
• The carriage driver said he needed his master's permission, then asked Chen Xiaofan to wait because his master was asleep.
• After about half an hour, the master woke up and came out after hearing the driver's request.

Chen Xiaofan paid a merchant five taels to ride his carriage to Mount Wudang, where both he and the young girl hoped to arrive soon. The merchant privately pitied them, believing they were seeking admission as disciples, while he was traveling there to request help avenging his family.

• Chen Xiaofan agreed to pay the merchant five taels for a place in his carriage.
• Chen Xiaofan learned the carriage was headed directly to Mount Wudang and felt relieved that he would not need to change routes.
• The young girl imagined Chen Xiaofan held an influential position at Mount Wudang and rested contentedly against his chest.
• The merchant learned Chen Xiaofan and the young girl were bound for Mount Wudang and assumed they hoped to become disciples, though it was not recruiting season.
• The merchant traveled to Mount Wudang to seek experts who could help him avenge his family.

Chen Xiaofan traveled to Mount Wudang with a young girl, while the merchant driving their carriage assumed they were poor youths hoping to join the sect. They arrived at the foot of the mountain at sunset, where a group had gathered to greet them.

• The merchant told Chen Xiaofan that Mount Wudang only accepted disciples on January 1 and assumed he planned to seek admission.
• Chen Xiaofan dismissed the merchant’s warning and told him to take them to Mount Wudang.
• The merchant believed Chen Xiaofan and the young girl were poor and had no connections to the sect.
• The carriage reached the foot of Mount Wudang at sunset, and Chen Xiaofan looked out with joy.

Chen Xiaofan returned to Mount Wudang and was welcomed with great respect as its Eighth Senior Brother. His sudden growth into a young man stunned the elder and disciples who had known him as a child.

• Mount Wudang's gatekeeping disciples recognized Chen Xiaofan and celebrated his return.
• Elder Wu greeted Chen Xiaofan respectfully, and Chen promised to ask Zhang Sanfeng to increase the elder's stipend.
• The merchant learned that Chen Xiaofan was Mount Wudang's Eighth Senior Brother, while Young Girl was astonished by his standing.
• Chen Xiaofan brought Young Girl up the mountain, where Elder Wu and the disciples noticed that he had grown dramatically taller.
• The elder and disciples wondered how Chen Xiaofan could have grown from a child into a young man during his trip.

Chen Xiaofan revealed his status on Mount Wudang after dismissing the merchant as black-hearted, leaving the merchant horrified to learn that the man he had mistreated was the Wudang Eighth Hero. The merchant’s plea for help was rejected by the elder, who warned that no one on Mount Wudang would oppose Chen Xiaofan.

• Chen Xiaofan told the group how he had absorbed a treasure, and they continued up the mountain.
• Chen Xiaofan called the merchant a black-hearted merchant, and the merchant and driver overheard that he was from Mount Wudang.
• The merchant regretted charging Chen Xiaofan extra and asked the elder to help avenge his family, offering three hundred thousand Silver Notes.
• The elder refused the merchant’s request and said no one on Mount Wudang, not even Grandmaster True Man Zhang, would stand up against Chen Xiaofan.
• The elder told the merchant that Chen Xiaofan was the Wudang Eighth Hero, leaving him stunned.

Chen Xiaofan’s status as one of the Wudang Eight Heroes was revealed, and the Wudang Sect cut off the merchant’s hopes of finding revenge. Chen Xiaofan then brought the Young Girl to Mount Wudang’s main hall and asked where Zhang Sanfeng was.

• A Wudang elder told the merchant to leave after revealing that Chen Xiaofan was one of the Wudang Eight Heroes.
• The merchant vowed to seek help from another sect, so the elder ordered a thousand people to send a warning to every sect in the Central Plains not to assist him.
• The merchant realized he had made an enemy of Wudang and left in disgrace.
• Chen Xiaofan led the Young Girl into Mount Wudang’s main hall, where she worried that his high status might make him look down on her.
• Chen Xiaofan asked the people on duty where Master Zhang Sanfeng was.

Chen Xiaofan set out to visit his recovering master but ran into Song Qingshu, whose arrogance and future villainy made Chen Xiaofan uneasy. Chen Xiaofan tried to leave without provoking Song Yuanqiao’s son, but Song Qingshu chased after him and continued demanding respect.

• Chen Xiaofan learned that his master was recuperating in the rear while many apothecaries and alchemists attended him.
• Chen Xiaofan headed toward his master’s quarters with the young girl and encountered Song Qingshu at the doorway.
• Song Qingshu recognized Chen Xiaofan from their earlier meeting at Bright Summit and felt that something about him was unsettling.
• Chen Xiaofan ignored Song Qingshu because he remembered his future villainy, but Song Qingshu ordered him to stop and demanded a greeting on account of his father, Song Yuanqiao.
• Chen Xiaofan chose to leave rather than disrespect Song Yuanqiao, but Song Qingshu chased after him and boasted of his strength and status.

Song Qingshu repeatedly provoked Chen Xiaofan, who had tried to leave without engaging him. When Song Qingshu attacked, Chen Xiaofan’s strength sent him crashing through a tree, and Chen Xiaofan left him humiliated on the ground.

• Chen Xiaofan tried to leave while Song Qingshu pursued him and complained that he was being ignored.
• Song Qingshu boasted of his status as Song Yuanqiao’s son and threatened to cripple Chen Xiaofan.
• Song Qingshu pressed his palm against Chen Xiaofan’s shoulder, but the force from Chen Xiaofan blasted him through a tree and onto the ground.
• Chen Xiaofan called Song Qingshu useless and annoying, then prepared to leave.

Song Qingshu attacked Chen Xiaofan from behind, but Chen Xiaofan effortlessly shattered his sword and crippled his meridians. Chen Xiaofan left Song Qingshu helpless as the disciples discussed the vast difference in their strength.

• Song Qingshu drew his sword and viciously attacked Chen Xiaofan, intending to cripple him.
• Chen Xiaofan’s power shattered Song Qingshu’s sword and sent him crashing through eighteen walls.
• Chen Xiaofan crippled Song Qingshu’s meridians and warned him not to provoke him again before leaving.
• Song Qingshu trembled in terror and struggled to understand Chen Xiaofan’s strength.
• The disciples quietly called Song Qingshu reckless and praised Junior Uncle-Master, while Song Qingshu burned with embarrassment.

Song Qingshu was left battered and losing his cultivation after Chen Xiaofan defeated him, and he ordered Wudang disciples to carry him away for treatment. Chen Xiaofan reached the rear and found Zhang Sanfeng seriously ill, surrounded by physicians and pharmacists.

• Song Qingshu realized his cultivation was rapidly dissipating and feared becoming a cripple.
• Song Qingshu, afraid to confront Chen Xiaofan again, considered appealing to Song Yuanqiao or Zhang Sanfeng for justice.
• Song Qingshu ordered nearby disciples to carry him away, and they took him off on a stretcher.
• Chen Xiaofan arrived at the rear and encountered Song Yuanqiao and the other Wudang Seven Heroes.
• Chen Xiaofan saw Zhang Sanfeng lying in bed as physicians and pharmacists examined him and prepared prescriptions.

Chen Xiaofan returned to find Zhang Sanfeng suffering a recurring old ailment, and offered to examine him despite a physician’s objections. The Wudang Seven Heroes were shocked by Chen Xiaofan’s sudden growth, but their attention returned to Zhang Sanfeng as Chen Xiaofan stepped in to help.

• Song Yuanqiao and the Wudang Seven Heroes asked Chen Xiaofan whether he could help Zhang Sanfeng, whose old ailment had flared up.
• A physician told Chen Xiaofan to stay out of the treatment because he was not a healer.
• Song Yuanqiao and the other Six Heroes of Wudang noticed that Chen Xiaofan had grown taller since they last saw him.
• Chen Xiaofan said he had absorbed a Treasure that caused his sudden growth.
• Chen Xiaofan approached Zhang Sanfeng and told the physician to let him examine the old master.

Chen Xiaofan claimed he could treat Zhang Sanfeng using medical knowledge he had secretly gained through the system, but the physician and Mount Wudang disciples doubted his experience. The physician finished examining Zhang Sanfeng and prescribed Nine Phoenix Grass, leaving Chen Xiaofan without a chance to try his treatment.

• Chen Xiaofan secretly learned the physician’s medical skills through the system and developed a treatment method of his own.
• The physician told Chen Xiaofan to stop making trouble while he examined the unconscious Zhang Sanfeng, and Song Yuanqiao and the others urged Chen Xiaofan to step aside.
• Chen Xiaofan said he had learned medicine from an old book he found on a Back-Passing Ape and asked to treat Zhang Sanfeng.
• The physician dismissed Chen Xiaofan’s lack of clinical experience, finished taking Zhang Sanfeng’s pulse, and prescribed Nine Phoenix Grass.

The physician refined a purple pill to treat Zhang Sanfeng, impressing everyone present with his alchemy. Song Yuanqiao paid him ten taels of silver and entrusted his master's recovery to him.

• The servant prepared the medicinal ingredients for the physician.
• The physician brought out his old Alchemy Furnace and began refining a pill with Nine Phoenix Grass and other herbs.
• Chen Xiaofan remained calm as he watched, believing Zhang Sanfeng was still alive and could be saved.
• The physician finished a fragrant purple pill after roughly the time it took to drink a cup of tea.
• Song Yuanqiao praised the physician and handed him ten taels of silver.

A physician treated Zhang Sanfeng with a pill and assured Song Yuanqiao that his master would soon awaken, while Chen Xiaofan judged the treatment ineffective. Chen Xiaofan identified Zhang Sanfeng’s illness as bone and joint necrosis that had spread to the surrounding nerves, and began assessing the pill.

• The physician accepted ten taels from the Wudang Sect and fed Zhang Sanfeng a pill with hot water.
• The physician told Song Yuanqiao that Zhang Sanfeng would awaken within the time it took to brew a cup of tea.
• Song Yuanqiao gave the physician another ten-tael silver note.
• After ten minutes passed without Zhang Sanfeng waking, Chen Xiaofan concluded that his joints and nearby nerves had suffered necrosis.
• Chen Xiaofan examined the physician’s pill and began to judge its effects.

Chen Xiaofan knew the Awakening Pill was unlikely to cure Zhang Sanfeng’s underlying condition, but he stayed silent while the alchemy master promised it would wake him. When Zhang Sanfeng remained unconscious past the promised time, the Wudang disciples grew suspicious and demanded an explanation.

• Chen Xiaofan recognized that the Awakening Pill would not repair Zhang Sanfeng’s damaged nerves or bone joints, but he kept his doubts to himself.
• The promised time passed, yet Zhang Sanfeng did not wake, and the onlookers began to suspect the alchemy master.
• The alchemy master grew flustered as he wondered why his pill had failed.
• Chen Xiaofan offered the master tea and asked why Zhang Sanfeng had not awakened as promised.
• Yin Liting, Zhang Cuishan, Mo Gu, Song Yuanqiao, and the other Wudang Seven Heroes fixed the master with suspicious, heavy gazes.

The master healer failed to treat Zhang Sanfeng and admitted that his rare illness resisted every medicine and method. As Zhang Sanfeng's condition worsened, Chen Xiaofan stepped forward and offered to treat him himself.

• The master healer examined Zhang Sanfeng and told the gathered people that his condition was beyond his ability to treat.
• The master healer promised to keep searching for a treatment, though he privately believed he was powerless to help Zhang Sanfeng.
• The master healer recalled Zhang Sanfeng's former strength and sat at his bedside, watching him grow weaker.
• Chen Xiaofan decided to treat Zhang Sanfeng himself and told the physician he could do a better job.

Chen Xiaofan insisted that he could heal Zhang Sanfeng and challenged the physician to watch him prove his skills. The physician, enraged by Chen Xiaofan's arrogance, gave up arguing with him.

• Chen Xiaofan claimed he could heal Zhang Sanfeng, but the physician questioned his experience and dismissed his confidence as youthful boasting.
• The physician reflected that Chen Xiaofan needed to suffer setbacks to understand his limitations, then turned to leave.
• Chen Xiaofan asked the physician to stay and watch him treat Zhang Sanfeng so he could demonstrate his medical skills to his senior brothers.
• The physician angrily insulted Chen Xiaofan for being young, and Chen Xiaofan proclaimed himself the number one divine physician under heaven.
• The physician decided Chen Xiaofan was too arrogant to reason with and stopped responding to him.