Chapter Summaries

After hearing that Chen Xiaofan had become Wudang Sect Leader because he saved Zhang Sanfeng, a nearby Sect Leader doubted Chen’s ability and proposed a gathering to test him. The letter-delivering disciple agreed to ask Zhang Sanfeng to hold the event, leaving Chen’s new leadership poised to face scrutiny from neighboring sects.

• The Sect Leader wondered whether Zhang Sanfeng had died, prompting the disciple to explain that Chen Xiaofan had saved him and been appointed Wudang Sect Leader.
• The people in the hall were astonished by Chen Xiaofan’s medical skills and suspected his martial arts might surpass Zhang Sanfeng’s.
• The Sect Leader proposed a gathering for Chen Xiaofan’s leadership, including a martial arts arena, while privately intending to test Chen’s strength.
• The disciple recognized the Sect Leader’s suspicion and agreed to ask Zhang Sanfeng about the gathering, inviting nearby sects to attend.

A Wudang disciple delivered letters announcing Chen Xiaofan as the sect’s new leader, prompting other sects to ask to see his strength. Zhang Sanfeng confirmed he had planned the news to draw the martial world to Mount Wudang, where a Martial Arts Gathering would be held.

• The Wudang disciple delivered a letter to one sect, whose leader was shocked by the change and wanted to visit Mount Wudang to see the New Sect Leader.
• The disciple visited more than ten sects, and their leaders likewise reacted with disbelief and asked to witness Chen Xiaofan’s cultivation.
• The disciple returned to Mount Wudang and asked Zhang Sanfeng about the letters, and Zhang Sanfeng confirmed he meant to make Chen Xiaofan known throughout the martial world.
• Zhang Sanfeng ordered the disciple to send carrier pigeons announcing an auspicious date for the Wudang Sect’s Martial Arts Gathering.

Zhang Sanfeng arranged a Martial Arts Tournament at Mount Wudang, leaving Chen Xiaofan to take over the sect’s affairs. Other sects welcomed the invitation and prepared to attend, while the Fire Dragon Sect’s leader began issuing orders.

• Zhang Sanfeng decided to hold a Martial Arts Tournament on Mount Wudang and hand the sect’s affairs over to Chen Xiaofan.
• Zhang Sanfeng ordered disciples to gather materials and build a large, sturdy arena on the back mountain.
• Wudang disciples began felling trees and procuring materials for the arena.
• Other sects received Zhang Sanfeng’s invitation to attend the tournament in three days and were pleased to have an excuse to visit Mount Wudang.
• The leader of the Fire Dragon Sect began giving orders to his sect.

Sects across the martial world received Wudang’s invitation to a Martial Arts Gathering three days later and hurried toward Mount Wudang. The gathering stirred widespread curiosity about whether Chen Xiaofan deserved to be Wudang’s new Sect Leader.

• One nearby sect’s Sect Leader read Wudang’s secret letter and ordered his people to pack and travel to Mount Wudang.
• A Western Regions sect’s female Sect Leader and her elder were shocked by the invitation and dispatched their disciples toward Wudang on Ferghana horses.
• Seventeen or eighteen Western Regions sects set out for Mount Wudang as news of Chen Xiaofan’s appointment and the gathering spread.
• Nearly all Central Plains sects heard about the leadership change and invitation, with some attending to build ties and others to test Chen Xiaofan’s ability.

Chen Xiaofan comprehended a powerful method for creating Storage Rings that could hold living beings as well as objects. After leaving the Scripture Depository, he learned that Zhang Sanfeng had arranged a Martial Arts Tournament for him to compete in, giving him a chance to become known throughout the martial world.

• Chen Xiaofan finished reading the book on rings and mastered its ring-crafting methods.
• Chen Xiaofan meditated for half a day and comprehended how to create a space inside an ordinary ring, one capable of holding living creatures.
• Chen Xiaofan left the Scripture Depository, intending to eat before making a ring.
• A disciple told Chen Xiaofan that Zhang Sanfeng had ordered an arena built for a Martial Arts Tournament to be held in three days.
• Chen Xiaofan welcomed the chance to display his strength and make himself known throughout the world.

With three days left before the Martial Arts Tournament, Chen Xiaofan decided to buy a Storage Ring and flew to a distant city after visiting Zhang Sanfeng. He left carrying Zhang Sanfeng’s extensive shopping list, while disciples arrived at Zhang Sanfeng’s residence seeking cultivation guidance.

• Chen Xiaofan decided to spend the days before the tournament buying a ring with storage space rather than forging one.
• Zhang Sanfeng arranged a place for the Young Girl to stay and made Song Yuanqiao her cultivation master.
• Chen Xiaofan visited Zhang Sanfeng before leaving and offered to pick up anything he needed.
• Zhang Sanfeng asked Chen Xiaofan to bring him fifteen jars of Daughter's Red, food, and other goods using his Storage Bag.
• Chen Xiaofan flew toward a distant city, and several disciples arrived to ask Zhang Sanfeng for guidance on their cultivation.

Zhang Sanfeng showed his disciples a Storage Bag made by the New Sect Leader and explained that it held space as large as a room. They doubted him until he opened it, leaving them shocked pale.

• Zhang Sanfeng quickly resolved the disciples’ difficult cultivation questions.
• Zhang Sanfeng showed the disciples an ordinary-looking Storage Bag and said the New Sect Leader had made it.
• Zhang Sanfeng explained that the bag could hold as much as an entire room.
• The disciples doubted that such a magical object could exist.
• Zhang Sanfeng opened the bag, and the disciples stared at it in disbelief.

Zhang Sanfeng used Chen Xiaofan’s miraculous storage bag to convince the Wudang Sect members that their new Sect Leader was capable and worthy of leading them. Meanwhile, Chen Xiaofan arrived by Sword Riding Flight in a bustling city at dusk.

• Zhang Sanfeng opened the bag to reveal its room-sized interior, which held a mountain of Wudang Sect martial arts manuals.
• Zhang Sanfeng told the gathered sect members that Chen Xiaofan had made the bag and used the demonstration to bolster Chen Xiaofan’s prestige.
• The Wudang Sect members accepted Chen Xiaofan as their rightful Sect Leader and anticipated that he would lead Mount Wudang to new heights.
• After an hour, the members left Zhang Sanfeng’s residence proud of their Sect Leader and confident in the sect’s future.
• Chen Xiaofan flew to a city by Sword Riding Flight and arrived among crowds, carriages, horses, and glowing lanterns at dusk.

Chen Xiaofan entered a bustling city to buy a ring before the Martial Arts Tournament, but after searching a whole street without finding a shop, he decided to ask someone for directions.

• Chen Xiaofan felt at home beneath the city's warm lanterns and thought about his dream of having an elder brother and sister-in-law.
• He entered the city's inner district, pleased by its crowds and prosperity.
• Chen Xiaofan planned to buy a ring and prepare a space inside it before the Martial Arts Tournament three days later.
• After searching the street in both directions, Chen Xiaofan found no ring shops and decided to ask someone for help.

Chen Xiaofan struck Young Master Hu after the arrogant young man insulted him, sending him flying through the city. Young Master Hu recognized Chen Xiaofan as a powerful expert while the crowd reacted in shock.

• Chen Xiaofan stopped Young Master Hu to ask for directions, but Young Master Hu called him a dog blocking the road and tried to attack him.
• Chen Xiaofan slapped Young Master Hu, sending him crashing through walls and leaving him battered and ragged.
• The stunned crowd wondered who had dared to hit Young Master Hu and speculated about Chen Xiaofan's strength.
• Young Master Hu concluded that Chen Xiaofan was a high-level powerhouse, possibly a Great Grandmaster Level expert.
• Young Master Hu had been heading to Phoenix Tower to visit its newly arrived eighteen-year-old courtesan.

Chen Xiaofan brutally punished Young Master Hu after he offered gold to apologize, then killed him with a slap to the back of the head. Young Master Hu’s corpse collapsed to the ground, and the chapter ended with him dead.

• Young Master Hu vomited blood after Chen Xiaofan slapped him and realized he could not defeat him.
• Young Master Hu offered Chen Xiaofan a piece of pure gold as an apology and plea for his life.
• Chen Xiaofan stomped on Young Master Hu’s hand, crushing the gold and breaking his fingers and palm despite his Adamantine Guard.
• Young Master Hu begged for mercy, knelt, and kowtowed three times before Chen Xiaofan.
• Chen Xiaofan struck Young Master Hu in the back of the head, killing him as his head burst apart.

After Chen Xiaofan killed Young Master Hu, bystanders warned him that the powerful Hu Family would take revenge. Chen Xiaofan killed the man who threatened him as well, leaving the crowd stunned.

• Young Master Hu's death shocked the street, and onlookers feared the Hu Family's immense power.
• A man told Chen Xiaofan that killing Young Master Hu would bring him great trouble and warned him to leave the city.
• Chen Xiaofan realized the man hoped to kill him and claim a reward from the Hu Family.
• The man boasted that the City Lord had the backing of a powerful sect and demanded that Chen Xiaofan surrender.
• Chen Xiaofan struck the man on the head, killing him in front of the crowd.

Chen Xiaofan killed two men who challenged him after Young Master Hu insulted him, then demanded directions to the Hu Family and the City Lord's Mansion so he could confront them. As the crowd feared the powerful sect backing the City Lord, a white-haired daoist stepped forward.

• Chen Xiaofan slapped Young Master Hu to death after he cursed him.
• A Houtian realm man threatened Chen Xiaofan, who slapped him into a corpse as well.
• The crowd gasped at the killings and feared retaliation from the Hu Family, the City Lord, and the sect behind the City Lord.
• Chen Xiaofan asked the crowd where the Hu Family and the City Lord's Mansion were, intending to settle matters before the Martial Arts Tournament.
• A white-haired, purple-robed daoist holding a whisk and a sword stepped out from the crowd.

Chen Xiaofan followed directions to the Hu Family after rewarding an old daoist, then attacked a guard who blocked his way into the family compound. He left the second guard terrified as he entered the Hu Family’s grounds.

• Chen Xiaofan rewarded the old daoist with ten thousand taels of gold for pointing out the way, leaving the onlookers filled with regret.
• Chen Xiaofan searched the shops along the road for rings but found only blacksmiths that did not make them.
• Chen Xiaofan arrived at the Hu Family’s gates and judged its two guards to be weak despite their imposing size.
• The guards warned Chen Xiaofan not to trespass, and he sent one flying through a wall with an unseen force.
• The surviving guard stood terrified, unable to tell how Chen Xiaofan had attacked his companion.

Chen Xiaofan killed two guards with a glance and entered the Hu Family’s deserted compound. A frightened Chaotian Sect elder confronted him, unaware that the Hu Family had hidden in a cellar and sent him out to protect them.

• Chen Xiaofan sent one guard crashing through three floors and killed him, then smashed the other guard against a wall with another glance.
• Chen Xiaofan walked through the gate and found the Hu Family compound deserted despite the commotion outside.
• A white-haired Chaotian Sect elder emerged and threatened Chen Xiaofan for killing the guards.
• The Hu Family had hidden in a cellar after witnessing Chen Xiaofan’s power and had sent the elder out to protect them in exchange for a reward.

Chen Xiaofan confronted an old man who had accepted the Hu Family’s offer to stop him, and the old man quickly begged for mercy when he sensed Chen Xiaofan’s killing intent. Soldiers from the City Lord’s Mansion arrived, but Chen Xiaofan remained determined to destroy the Hu Family and make the City Lord’s Mansion apologize.

• Chen Xiaofan drew a sharp short sword from the Scripture Depository and walked toward the old man.
• The old man was overwhelmed by Chen Xiaofan’s killing intent and begged him to spare his life, promising to return to the mountains.
• Soldiers from the City Lord’s Mansion arrived in full armor.
• Chen Xiaofan recognized the soldiers and decided that their arrival would not stop him from destroying the Hu Family.

Chen Xiaofan killed the Great Grandmaster who had come to borrow money from Hu Jia, then turned on the City Lord’s Mansion soldiers. He left the surviving soldiers frozen in terror as he continued his slaughter.

• A commander from the City Lord’s Mansion arrived and challenged Chen Xiaofan, but Chen ignored him and attacked the old man.
• The old man’s broadsword broke against Chen Xiaofan’s weapon, and Chen killed him with a single strike.
• Chen searched the old man’s body and found a pouch filled with silver notes.
• Chen turned on the soldiers, killing one with his sword and another with a kick that smashed him against a wall.
• The surviving soldiers stood frozen, stunned by Chen’s strength.

Chen Xiaofan overwhelmed the armed men who had come to kill him, then faced a Great Grandmaster-level general whose pressure did not affect him. The general panicked and fled, fearing Chen Xiaofan would kill him.

• The armed men dropped their weapons in terror after Chen Xiaofan kicked one of their companions into a wall and killed him.
• Chen Xiaofan picked up a saber and killed two more men with swift strikes.
• The general rushed in and unleashed his Great Grandmaster-level pressure, but Chen Xiaofan remained unaffected.
• The general lost his nerve and turned to flee from Chen Xiaofan.

Chen Xiaofan caught and killed the general who tried to flee, then took his saber and returned to the Hu Family compound to hunt down the remaining soldiers. The surviving soldiers trembled as he killed one near the gates.

• The general fled toward the city gates, but Chen Xiaofan caught up and blocked his escape.
• Chen Xiaofan killed the general with his blade, searched his body, and took his Silver Notes and saber.
• Chen Xiaofan returned to the Hu Family compound, determined to kill every soldier there.
• Chen Xiaofan beheaded a soldier sneaking toward the exit, leaving the others terrified.

Chen Xiaofan killed the soldiers who had come to kill him, leaving their bodies scattered across the courtyard. He then walked toward the interior of the Hu Family.

• The soldiers trembled in fear as Chen Xiaofan came to settle the score with them.
• Chen Xiaofan attacked the soldiers, killing the first man with a slash to the head.
• Chen Xiaofan continued slashing through the soldiers and killed them all in less than the time it took to burn an incense stick.
• Chen Xiaofan walked toward the interior of the Hu Family.