Chapter Summaries

Huang Yaoshi demonstrated Peach Blossom Island’s Finger Flicking Divine Skill to his disciples, while Chen Xiaofan watched and created a much stronger version that eliminated its weakness. Huang Yaoshi then asked the disciples how much they had comprehended, and Mei Chaofeng began to answer.

• Huang Yaoshi warned Ye Gucheng not to secretly learn the Finger Flicking Divine Skill, but Ye Gucheng dismissed it and turned away.
• Huang Yaoshi demonstrated the skill, using ten stones to flatten a distant mountaintop and impressing his disciples.
• Chen Xiaofan comprehended the technique and created several enhanced versions, culminating in the Finger Flicking Heaven-Shaking Violet Lightning Divine Skill.
• Huang Yaoshi finished the lesson and asked his disciples whether they had comprehended at least ten percent of the skill.
• Mei Chaofeng eagerly began to report her comprehension.

After Ye Gucheng humiliated Huang Yaoshi’s disciples, Chen Xiaofan emerged from hiding and challenged him. Chen Xiaofan struck Ye Gucheng down with a powerful palm technique, leaving Huang Yaoshi and the others astonished.

• Mei Chaofeng and Lu Chengfeng used the Finger Flicking Divine Skill against Ye Gucheng, but he sent both of their stones back and injured them.
• Ye Gucheng taunted Huang Yaoshi and demanded that he fight, while Chen Xiaofan watched from a nearby hill and decided to learn Ye Gucheng’s martial arts up close.
• Ye Gucheng spotted Chen Xiaofan, who came forward, called Huang Yaoshi his Master, and claimed he had been picking peaches.
• Chen Xiaofan accepted Ye Gucheng’s challenge despite Huang Yaoshi’s warnings and claimed he would defend Peach Blossom Island’s reputation.
• Chen Xiaofan struck Ye Gucheng with the Great Earth Moving Thunderous Form Intent Palm, sending him flying and shocking everyone.

Chen Xiaofan repeatedly overwhelmed Ye Gucheng with powerful martial arts, astonishing Huang Yaoshi and his disciples. Ye Gucheng launched his strongest sword technique, Flying Sword Beyond the Heavens, and the chapter ended with his attack rushing toward Chen Xiaofan.

• Chen Xiaofan struck Ye Gucheng with a palm and sent him crashing through a wall.
• Chen Xiaofan shattered Ye Gucheng's sword with his improved Jade Flute swordplay and cut his clothes.
• Ye Gucheng fired a heavy crossbow bolt, but Chen Xiaofan broke the arrow and knocked the crossbow from his hand with a pebble.
• Huang Yaoshi and his disciples marveled at Chen Xiaofan's skill, while Chen Xiaofan gained new palm, sword, and archery techniques from watching Ye Gucheng.
• Ye Gucheng refused to surrender and attacked Chen Xiaofan with Flying Sword Beyond the Heavens.

Chen Xiaofan defeated Ye Gucheng’s Flying Sword Beyond the Heavens with his newly comprehended Flying Immortal Beyond the Heavens. After Ximen Chuixue vouched for Chen Xiaofan’s extraordinary cultivation, Ye Gucheng demanded proof, and Ximen prepared to face Chen Xiaofan after receiving power from Ye Gucheng and Huang Yaoshi.

• Chen Xiaofan comprehended Flying Immortal Beyond the Heavens and countered Ye Gucheng’s sword strike with a stronger attack.
• Chen Xiaofan shattered Ye Gucheng’s sword and left him alive with a cut through his clothes.
• Ximen Chuixue arrived and told Ye Gucheng that Chen Xiaofan’s cultivation surpassed even his own.
• Ximen Chuixue explained that Daoist Master Qiu had also been unable to match Chen Xiaofan, but Ye Gucheng demanded a demonstration.
• Ye Gucheng and Huang Yaoshi transferred their power to Ximen Chuixue, who prepared to exchange blows with Chen Xiaofan.

Chen Xiaofan defeated Ximen Chuixue in a sword duel and repelled his Sword-Finger Qi Transformation, impressing the martial artists gathered there. Ximen Chuixue and Ye Gucheng gave Chen Xiaofan gifts, while Huang Yaoshi regarded him as the one who could carry on Peach Blossom Island’s legacy.

• Ximen Chuixue challenged Chen Xiaofan to a friendly duel, and Chen Xiaofan accepted.
• Chen Xiaofan defeated Ximen Chuixue’s lightning-fast sword strike with a single sword blow.
• Ximen Chuixue attacked with Sword-Finger Qi Transformation, but Chen Xiaofan shattered all eighteen streams of sword qi with stones launched by his Finger Flicking Heaven-Shaking Violet Lightning Divine Skill.
• Ximen Chuixue admitted defeat and gave Chen Xiaofan a pill, a refined-iron sword, and a jade-green lotus seed.
• Ye Gucheng apologized to Huang Yaoshi and gave Chen Xiaofan a golden dagger and formulas for a Qi Replenishing Pill and a Nine-Leaf Pill.
• Huang Yaoshi and the other martial artists praised Chen Xiaofan, and Huang Yaoshi thought he could carry on Peach Blossom Island’s legacy.

Huang Yaoshi taught Chen Xiaofan Mysterious Gates Eight Trigrams, but Chen Xiaofan quickly refined it into a far more powerful technique. When Ye Gucheng challenged his astonishing comprehension by giving him a sword manual, Chen Xiaofan mastered and transformed its art in moments, ending with a Land Immortal-level sword technique.

• Huang Yaoshi demonstrated Mysterious Gates Eight Trigrams to Chen Xiaofan, who comprehended it and created several improved techniques.
• Chen Xiaofan demonstrated his refined version, astonishing Huang Yaoshi, Ye Gucheng, Ximen Chuixue, and the others.
• Ye Gucheng questioned whether Chen Xiaofan could truly learn the technique on the spot, so Huang Yaoshi invited him to test Chen Xiaofan with a profound martial art.
• Ye Gucheng gave Chen Xiaofan the Thirteen Sword Strikes Beyond the Heavens manual and challenged him to learn it.
• Chen Xiaofan began comprehending the sword art and created Flying Immortal Beyond the Heavens Dragon Slaying Sword, eliminating its weakness and raising it to the Land Immortal level.

Chen Xiaofan demonstrated his extraordinary comprehension by using a single sword strike to slice apart a mountain, convincing Ye Gucheng and Ximen Chuixue of his abilities. After becoming sworn brothers with them, he left Peach Blossom Island to seek Zhang Sanfeng as his next master.

• Chen Xiaofan returned Ye Gucheng's Martial Arts Manual and demonstrated its sword technique by cutting the upper half off a mountain with one slash.
• Huang Yaoshi, Ye Gucheng, and Ximen Chuixue were stunned by Chen Xiaofan's power, and Ye Gucheng admitted he had misjudged him.
• Ye Gucheng and Ximen Chuixue asked Chen Xiaofan to become their sworn brother, and he agreed.
• Chen Xiaofan told Huang Yaoshi he planned to go to Mount Wudang and take Zhang Sanfeng as his master, while promising to carry on Huang Yaoshi's arts.
• Chen Xiaofan shared a meal with Huang Yaoshi and his fellow disciples, then said farewell and set out on a new journey.

Chen Xiaofan took shelter from a storm in an empty manor, swallowed Ximen Chuixue’s pill, and fused his martial arts into a powerful new sword technique. After the rain stopped, he flew onward toward Mount Wudang and halted at a village by dusk.

• Chen Xiaofan found an abandoned manor during heavy rain and entered it to rest and fuse his martial arts.
• Chen Xiaofan swallowed the pill Ximen Chuixue had given him, recovering his energy and gaining a great increase in strength.
• Chen Xiaofan tested his power by bending and straightening a thick iron pillar.
• Chen Xiaofan fused his martial arts into Sword Sweeps Heavenly Mountain, a late-stage Land Immortal sword art that required no Internal Energy to activate.
• Chen Xiaofan waited for the rain to stop, then flew toward Mount Wudang and halted at a village by dusk.

Chen Xiaofan took shelter from the storm in a village, where a kind woman gave him dry clothes and a place by the fire. When Mad Saber Sect members massacred the villagers to hide their assassination of the Peacock Cult's Grand Elder, Chen Xiaofan vowed to protect everyone, drawing the sect members' attention.

• Chen Xiaofan entered a village during the rain, and a middle-aged woman brought him into her home and lent him her dead son's clothes.
• Chen Xiaofan sensed approaching footsteps and learned that Mad Saber Sect members were killing villagers who had witnessed their assassination of the Peacock Cult's Grand Elder.
• The Mad Saber Sect leader ordered his men to kill everyone in the village, and the villagers gathered in the rain under threat.
• Chen Xiaofan told the middle-aged woman he could defeat the attackers, but she and the other villagers dismissed his words as a frightened child's babbling.
• A Mad Saber Sect member angrily pointed at Chen Xiaofan and ordered him to step forward.

Chen Xiaofan revealed his overwhelming strength by killing a Mad Saber Sect Innate Master and cutting down its Grandmaster leader. He turned to face the surviving sect members and calmly asked whether a Grandmaster was very strong.

• Chen Xiaofan stepped forward and killed a Mad Saber Sect member with one sword strike, splitting him in two.
• The Mad Saber Sect leader attacked Chen Xiaofan, but Chen cut through his saber and armor and fatally wounded him.
• The leader realized Chen Xiaofan was a Great Grandmaster and warned the other sect members not to approach.
• Chen Xiaofan claimed the leader’s golden armor as a Treasure and cut off his head after he begged for mercy.
• Chen Xiaofan faced the remaining Mad Saber Sect members and asked whether a Grandmaster was very strong.

Chen Xiaofan slaughtered the Mad Saber Sect members who had threatened to wipe out the village, then helped the villagers conceal the bodies. The villagers thanked him and presented him with the items taken from the corpses.

• After revealing himself as a Great Grandmaster, Chen Xiaofan killed two Mad Saber Sect members with one sword strike.
• A Mad Saber Sect member offered Chen Xiaofan compensation, but Chen Xiaofan cut him down as he tried to flee.
• Chen Xiaofan killed the remaining Mad Saber Sect members, leaving none alive.
• The villagers buried the corpses in a manure ditch and covered the bloodstains with pig manure and cow dung.
• The village chief thanked Chen Xiaofan and offered him the items recovered from the corpses, and Chen Xiaofan was pleased by the haul.

Chen Xiaofan left the village with valuable medicines, treasure maps, and a sword, then encountered an Emei Sect disciple being pursued by Liu Jinfa. He killed Liu Jinfa with one strike and left the woman wondering whether he was an immortal.

• Chen Xiaofan took the treasure maps, medicines, silver notes, and a sword, then swallowed an Azure Origin Pill and spent the night in the village.
• At dawn, Chen Xiaofan flew toward Mount Wudang and heard an Emei Sect disciple pleading with Liu Jinfa to stop pursuing her.
• Chen Xiaofan arrived as Liu Jinfa was about to defeat the woman, and Liu Jinfa mocked him for being a child.
• Chen Xiaofan killed Liu Jinfa with one sword strike, revealing that he had recognized Liu Jinfa as a Grandmaster Peak.
• The Emei woman thanked Chen Xiaofan and asked whether he was an immortal because he could fly and had killed Liu Jinfa so easily.

After saving Ning Xuerou, Chen Xiaofan accepted her offer to become his older brother’s older sister and received gemstones and an Emei swordplay manual as gifts. He left with both valuable rewards and Ning Xuerou’s warning to keep them hidden.

• Chen Xiaofan told Ning Xuerou he was extraordinarily gifted rather than an immortal, then agreed to become her younger brother.
• Ning Xuerou introduced herself as a senior disciple of the Emei Sect and offered Chen Xiaofan gemstones to repay him for saving her life.
• Chen Xiaofan took five gemstones, and Ning Xuerou added two sapphires while warning him not to display his wealth.
• Ning Xuerou gave Chen Xiaofan her Emei Swordplay manual, and he recognized its value as a rare martial arts technique.
• Chen Xiaofan examined the manual and suddenly had an idea.

Ning Xuerou demonstrated Emei Swordplay for Chen Xiaofan, who instantly comprehended and perfected a far more powerful version. After stunning Ning Xuerou with his sword strike, Chen Xiaofan prepared to leave for Mount Wudang, and she gave him a sachet and asked him to visit her at Emei when he grew up.

• Chen Xiaofan declined to take Ning Xuerou's inherited sword manual and asked her to demonstrate Emei Swordplay instead.
• Ning Xuerou demonstrated Emei Swordplay and slowed her movements to help Chen Xiaofan learn it.
• Chen Xiaofan used his exceptional comprehension to create and perfect the Emei Heaven-Shaking Divine Sword.
• Chen Xiaofan demonstrated the sword technique with a strike that split the earth and left Ning Xuerou stunned.
• Chen Xiaofan told Ning Xuerou he was going to Mount Wudang, and she gave him a sachet and asked him to visit her at Emei when he grew up.

Chen Xiaofan tested his newly created Lightning Shadowless Sword, then discovered Qianyuan Sect’s powerful Qianyuan Gong while watching four sects surround Canghai Sect. The Qianyuan Sect children began preparing to attack the fortress gate, and Chen Xiaofan waited to learn their technique.

• Chen Xiaofan used the Lightning Shadowless Sword to erase an ancient tree, then continued his journey.
• Chen Xiaofan reached a desert fortress and hid nearby as four sects surrounded Canghai Sect.
• The Sect Leader of Zhenhuo Sect explained that Qianyuan Sect’s child disciples practiced the powerful Qianyuan Gong and could break the gate.
• Chen Xiaofan recognized Qianyuan Gong as a technique he could learn and anticipated gaining techniques from the gathered sects.
• The Sect Leader of Qianyuan Sect ordered thirty children to smash the gate, and they began circulating Qianyuan Gong.

Chen Xiaofan studied Ma Sanbao’s cultivation and created the Yang God Nine Revolutions Art, which raised him to Great Perfection of the Land Immortal realm. As the Qianyuan Sect and Canghai Sect forces clashed outside the fortress, he secretly learned and developed new martial arts by watching the fighters.

• Chen Xiaofan watched Ma Sanbao cultivate, created several heart methods, and fused them with his Limitless Heavenly Heart Inner Cultivation Art to form the Yang God Nine Revolutions Art.
• Chen Xiaofan cultivated the new art and advanced from Grandmaster Peak to Great Perfection of the Land Immortal realm.
• Thirty children shattered the fortress gate, and a Qianyuan Sect leader ordered his forces to attack the Canghai Sect without mercy.
• Canghai Sect elites poured out of the fortress, and their leader’s Flame Hand overwhelmed the Huangfeng Sect Leader and injured the tall man.
• Chen Xiaofan watched the battle and comprehended the Canghai Golden Saber, several versions of the Flame Hand, and new techniques based on the other fighters’ martial arts.

Chen Xiaofan secretly watched the four sects battle the Canghai Sect, rapidly comprehending their martial arts while pretending to be dead. After the Canghai Sect was wiped out, the surviving Sect Leaders announced rewards, and Chen Xiaofan sat up to claim his share.

• Chen Xiaofan watched the fighting and gained many new martial arts by analyzing the techniques used by both sides.
• As the four sects drove the Canghai Sect into its fortress, Chen Xiaofan disguised himself in a dead child's clothes and entered to keep observing.
• A Canghai Sect disciple attacked Chen Xiaofan, who killed him with one finger using the Qianyuan Sweeping Finger before pretending to be dead again.
• Chen Xiaofan followed the advancing fighters and continued learning martial arts as the four sects killed every member of the Canghai Sect.
• The four surviving Sect Leaders declared victory and offered rewards to the surviving disciples, prompting Chen Xiaofan to sit up.

Chen Xiaofan disguised himself among the surviving Qianyuan Sect disciples and received thirty-four Nine Yuan Pills from the Sect Leader. The other sect leaders grew suspicious when they realized they did not recognize the blood-covered disciple, and the Zhenhuo Sect Leader called out to question the Qianyuan Sect Leader.

• Chen Xiaofan smeared blood over his face and joined the seven surviving Qianyuan Sect disciples.
• The Qianyuan Sect Leader handed Chen Xiaofan all thirty-four remaining Nine Yuan Pills, explaining that his apparent injuries deserved a greater reward.
• Chen Xiaofan treasured the pills after recognizing their rarity and great value.
• The Zhenhuo and Huangfeng Sect Leaders noticed that the disciple who received the pills looked unfamiliar.
• The Zhenhuo Sect Leader called out to the Qianyuan Sect Leader and questioned the disciple's identity.

Chen Xiaofan returned to Qianyuan Sect after the battle and fused his martial arts into powerful new sword and palm techniques. The sect leader summoned him privately and asked why he had infiltrated the sect.

• The Qianyuan Sect leader praised Chen Xiaofan’s bravery, and the other sect leaders admired him.
• Chen Xiaofan traveled with the Qianyuan Sect disciples to their sect, where the injured sect leader and disciples went to treat their wounds.
• Chen Xiaofan trained on the back mountain and fused his techniques into Thunderclap Sword and Flame Dragon Explosive Palm.
• Chen Xiaofan counted his thirty-four Nine Yuan Pills before a disciple told him the sect leader wanted to see him.
• The sect leader sent everyone else away and asked Chen Xiaofan why he had infiltrated Qianyuan Sect.

Chen Xiaofan revealed that he had mastered every martial art of the Qianyuan Sect, astonishing its leader, Li Daoyi. He declined to stay, promised to help the sect in future crises, and set out for Mount Wudang with three gifts from Li Daoyi.

• Chen Xiaofan told Li Daoyi he had already learned the Qianyuan Sect's cultivation method and every martial art, but Li Daoyi dismissed his claims and ordered him down the mountain.
• Chen Xiaofan demonstrated the sect's techniques at extraordinary levels of mastery, shattering the hall floor and bamboo forest and leaving Li Daoyi stunned.
• Li Daoyi offered to make Chen Xiaofan the inner sect's Chief Disciple and future Sect Leader, but Chen Xiaofan declined and promised to help the Qianyuan Sect three times if needed.
• Chen Xiaofan said he was going to Mount Wudang to meet True Man Zhang, and Li Daoyi secured his promise to help the Qianyuan Sect one additional time.
• Li Daoyi gave Chen Xiaofan a sharp dagger, a Spirit Fruit, and the Qianyuan Sect's highest-grade identity token, which Chen Xiaofan accepted.