Chapter Summaries

Chen Xiaofan mocked a newly transformed Stone Spirit for calling itself an Immortal Lord and demanding silver. The Stone Spirit dismissed Chen Xiaofan’s claim that he was a true immortal and continued threatening him.

• Chen Xiaofan laughed at the Stone Spirit’s boastful title and its demand for money.
• The Stone Spirit challenged Chen Xiaofan for mocking it and claimed that other spirits revered it.
• Chen Xiaofan called himself a true immortal and criticized the Stone Spirit for exploiting its cultivation instead of devoting itself to the path.
• The Stone Spirit refused Chen Xiaofan’s advice and demanded enough silver to spare him, threatening to settle their grudges.
• Chen Xiaofan gave up trying to reason with the Stone Spirit.

Chen Xiaofan confronted the Stone Spirit, which demanded an exorbitant toll and threatened to kill him for refusing. The two ended the chapter trading threats, with neither backing down.

• The Stone Spirit told Chen Xiaofan that it had beaten a previous traveler to death for refusing to pay its toll.
• The Stone Spirit revealed that it collected silver so it could leave the mountains and said this would be its final transaction.
• The Stone Spirit demanded one hundred taels of silver to let Chen Xiaofan pass, but Chen Xiaofan refused and condemned its extortion.
• The Stone Spirit threatened to take Chen Xiaofan’s treasures and life, and Chen Xiaofan challenged it to try.

The Stone Spirit charged Chen Xiaofan, but Chen Xiaofan stopped and sent him flying with a single finger. The Stone Spirit recovered, transformed into human form, and challenged Chen Xiaofan again, while Chen Xiaofan remained confident and mocked him.

• The Stone Spirit rushed at Chen Xiaofan, believing his massive rolling attack would overwhelm him.
• Chen Xiaofan halted the Stone Spirit’s charge with one finger and sent him hurtling backward.
• The Stone Spirit used Nine Oxen, Two Tigers Strength to transform into a tall man and stop his retreat.
• Chen Xiaofan ridiculed the Stone Spirit for failing to withstand one finger, and the Stone Spirit claimed he had only been testing him.
• The Stone Spirit, angered by the humiliation, vowed to defeat Chen Xiaofan and regain his authority.

Chen Xiaofan effortlessly repelled the Stone Spirit’s hammer strike and condemned it for extorting money instead of cultivating. The Stone Spirit knelt and begged for its life, but Chen Xiaofan demanded that it explain exactly what it had done wrong.

• Chen Xiaofan mocked the Stone Spirit’s threat and stood still as it charged him with a heavy black hammer.
• An invisible force blasted the Stone Spirit and its hammer away, leaving Chen Xiaofan unharmed.
• Chen Xiaofan insulted the Stone Spirit’s cultivation and accused it of exploiting people for money.
• The terrified Stone Spirit knelt and pleaded for mercy, promising to reform and cultivate properly.
• Chen Xiaofan coldly asked the Stone Spirit whether it understood exactly where it had gone wrong.

Chen Xiaofan confronted Stone Spirit over its extortion and earlier boast that it had killed someone. Stone Spirit offered all its silver and pleaded for its life, but Chen Xiaofan rejected its excuses and continued to condemn it.

• Chen Xiaofan prepared to kill Stone Spirit while rejecting its initial pleas for forgiveness.
• Stone Spirit handed Chen Xiaofan all its silver and begged him to spare its life.
• Chen Xiaofan accepted the silver but said surrendering ill-gotten wealth did not prove Stone Spirit had changed.
• Stone Spirit offered to become Chen Xiaofan's servant, but Chen Xiaofan said he wanted it to die.
• Stone Spirit accused Chen Xiaofan of injustice, then claimed its earlier boast about killing someone had only been meant to frighten him into paying the toll.

Chen Xiaofan rejected Stone Spirit’s pleas and killed him for setting up a checkpoint to extort travelers. A newly cultivated Butterfly Spirit witnessed the killing from hiding and survived unnoticed.

• Stone Spirit pleaded with Chen Xiaofan to believe him, but Chen Xiaofan dismissed his claims and condemned him for robbing travelers.
• Chen Xiaofan struck Stone Spirit with a palm, shattering his body and killing him.
• As he died, Stone Spirit regretted extorting passage money and offending Chen Xiaofan.
• Chen Xiaofan blamed Stone Spirit for his fate and left without a second thought.
• A Butterfly Spirit who had cultivated that day watched from hiding, feared Chen Xiaofan would find her, and felt relieved when he left.

Chen Xiaofan heard a mother and son crying for help outside a city and intervened as three armed men threatened them. He knocked away Scarred Man’s dagger and confronted the attackers, while the grateful woman worried that he might be outmatched.

• Chen Xiaofan heard a faint cry for help and rushed toward its source.
• Scarred Man, Pockmarked Fatty, and a middle-aged man in gray threatened a woman and her son, then Scarred Man drew a dagger to kill the boy.
• Chen Xiaofan struck Scarred Man’s dagger with a pebble and stopped the attack.
• Chen Xiaofan approached the three men and rebuked them for bullying a widow and orphan.
• Pockmarked Fatty and the middle-aged man in gray threatened Chen Xiaofan, while the woman thanked him and asked whether he could really protect them.

Chen Xiaofan reassured the frightened woman that the three thugs posed no threat, but they dismissed his confidence and prepared to attack him. The thugs split up to keep the woman and her son from escaping while two of them confronted Chen Xiaofan.

• Chen Xiaofan told the woman he could easily defeat the three thugs and urged her not to worry.
• Pockmarked Fatty, Scarred Man, and Grey-clothed Man mocked Chen Xiaofan and insisted their experience made them stronger.
• Chen Xiaofan said the thugs would believe his strength after he beat them and forced them to beg for mercy.
• Grey-clothed Man and Pockmarked Fatty decided to attack Chen Xiaofan while Scarred Man watched the woman and her son.

Chen Xiaofan faced the bandits threatening a mother and her son and killed one of them with a single sword strike. The surviving Scarred Man was left terrified and began questioning who Chen Xiaofan was.

• The mother worried that Chen Xiaofan could not defeat the bandits, while her son encouraged him to protect them.
• Chen Xiaofan reassured the mother and son that the bandits posed no threat to him.
• Pockmarked Fatty and the gray-clad man attacked Chen Xiaofan with their sabers.
• Chen Xiaofan drew his sword and killed the gray-clad man with one slash.
• Pockmarked Fatty collapsed in fear, and Scarred Man trembled as he realized Chen Xiaofan had killed his sworn second brother.

Chen Xiaofan killed Second Brother and dismissed Scarred Man’s threats while protecting the mother and son. Third Brother lost his nerve, but Scarred Man insisted the two criminals could still defeat Chen Xiaofan by working together.

• Chen Xiaofan calmly refused to give Scarred Man his name and said he could kill him easily.
• The boy praised Chen Xiaofan and warned the criminals that he would kill them all.
• Scarred Man threatened to harm the mother and son, and Chen Xiaofan vowed that the criminals would not live to see tomorrow.
• Third Brother admitted he feared Chen Xiaofan and suggested surrendering after seeing Second Brother killed.
• Scarred Man rebuked Third Brother and claimed Second Brother had been caught by a sneak attack, arguing that the brothers could defeat Chen Xiaofan together.

Pockmarked Fatty agreed to join Scarred Man in avenging their dead brother, and the two attacked Chen Xiaofan. Chen Xiaofan effortlessly defeated them, leaving them barely alive and without hope of victory.

• Scarred Man persuaded Pockmarked Fatty to fight rather than give up, and Pockmarked Fatty agreed to avenge Second Brother.
• Chen Xiaofan mocked the two criminals and invited them to attack him.
• Scarred Man and Pockmarked Fatty charged Chen Xiaofan with their broadswords.
• Chen Xiaofan struck them with his mysterious longsword and sent them flying hundreds of meters, gravely wounded.
• Chen Xiaofan mocked the defeated men as they realized they had no chance against him.

After Chen Xiaofan defeated the two criminals, the Scarred Man and his third brother begged him to spare their lives. Chen Xiaofan mocked their sudden change of heart, while the woman condemned their past cruelty.

• The Scarred Man realized Chen Xiaofan's strength was far beyond his expectations and became terrified.
• The pockmarked fat man crawled to Chen Xiaofan and begged for mercy to save his life.
• The Scarred Man also admitted fault and promised that the brothers would turn over a new leaf.
• Chen Xiaofan rejected their pleas, mocking how quickly they had changed from threats to begging.
• The woman angrily denounced the criminals for their lies and the suffering they had caused.

Chen Xiaofan rejected the villains’ desperate offers of money and women, while the mother and son watched them lose hope. The two men remained at his mercy, with Young Boy confident that Chen Xiaofan would not spare them.

• Young Boy condemned the pockmarked fat man and Scarred Man, but the two villains ignored the rebukes and begged Chen Xiaofan for their lives.
• Scarred Man and the fat man offered Chen Xiaofan their ill-gotten wealth, but Chen Xiaofan refused and scorned their proposal.
• Scarred Man offered his eighteen-year-old sister, and the fat man offered his concubine, hoping to tempt Chen Xiaofan into sparing them.
• Chen Xiaofan rejected the women as well, calling them burdens, and the villains were shocked that neither money nor beauty could sway him.
• The woman and Young Boy praised Chen Xiaofan for resisting the villains’ schemes and predicted that he would not let them go.

Chen Xiaofan pretended to offer two vicious criminals a chance to redeem themselves, while planning to use their false hope against them. After the mother and son tried to leave, he asked them to stay as witnesses, leaving the criminals terrified that they might be forced to honor their promise.

• The Scarred Man and Pockmarked Fatty begged Chen Xiaofan to spare their lives and offered to serve him.
• Chen Xiaofan offered the criminals a task, and they eagerly agreed, believing he had given them a chance to survive.
• The mother and son warned Chen Xiaofan against trusting the criminals, but he dismissed their concerns.
• Pockmarked Fatty and the Scarred Man insulted the mother and son, who apologized and prepared to leave.
• Chen Xiaofan called the mother and son back and asked them to stay as witnesses to ensure the criminals did not break their word.
• The criminals turned pale and nervously insisted that they would carry out Chen Xiaofan's instructions.

Chen Xiaofan revealed that the criminals could earn their lives only by slashing their own necks, exposing that his earlier promise to spare them had been a ruse. The two men realized they had been tricked, while the frail mother and son were pleased that he had never intended to let the criminals go.

• Chen Xiaofan kept his demand vague as the Scarred Man and Pockmarked Fatty pressed him to explain.
• Chen Xiaofan told the two criminals to lightly slash their own necks with their broadswords.
• The Scarred Man and Pockmarked Fatty protested and asked whether Chen Xiaofan had misspoken.
• Chen Xiaofan confirmed the demand and challenged them to prove they would keep their word.
• The two criminals realized Chen Xiaofan had deliberately deceived them and could only seethe helplessly.
• The frail mother and son understood Chen Xiaofan had been toying with the criminals and smiled with excitement.

Chen Xiaofan caught the two injured thugs after they tried to escape and taunted them for failing. Scarred Man challenged him to kill them, and Chen Xiaofan answered with a palm strike.

• The woman and the boy apologized to Chen Xiaofan, while the two thugs secretly began to flee.
• The boy warned Chen Xiaofan that the thugs were running, but Chen Xiaofan let them get a head start.
• Chen Xiaofan flashed ahead of the thugs and blocked their path, leaving them terrified and despairing.
• Chen Xiaofan mocked the thugs and said their evil deeds would eventually bring them to ruin.
• Scarred Man accused Chen Xiaofan of toying with them and challenged him to strike, so Chen Xiaofan sent a palm wind toward him.

Chen Xiaofan killed Scarred Man and Pockmarked Fatty after they attacked him, then searched their bodies while the mother and son watched in shock. The mother and son recognized that he had punished the bandits for their crimes, though they had been frightened by the scene.

• Chen Xiaofan struck Scarred Man dead and kicked his body, horrifying the mother and son.
• Pockmarked Fatty begged Chen Xiaofan to spare him or grant him a quick death.
• Chen Xiaofan killed Pockmarked Fatty with a palm strike.
• Chen Xiaofan searched the bandits and found money, jewelry, and women's intimate garments.
• The mother and son remained shaken but accepted that Chen Xiaofan had punished the bandits for their evil deeds.

After saving a mother and her son from attackers, Chen Xiaofan agreed to escort them into the city and took over their carriage. The trio traveled onward safely, with the boy admiring Chen Xiaofan’s surprising skill at driving.

• Chen Xiaofan reassured the frightened mother and accepted her thanks for saving her and her son.
• The mother asked Chen Xiaofan to travel with them to the city, and he agreed because he was headed there too.
• The mother explained their coachman had been killed and asked Chen Xiaofan to drive their carriage.
• Chen Xiaofan took the reins and drove the carriage with unexpected ease as the boy praised his skill.

Chen Xiaofan escorted the boy and his mother safely into the city and brought them to the City Lord’s Mansion. The boy revealed that the City Lord was his father, and the guards rushed to tell the worried Lord that his family had returned.

• The boy praised Chen Xiaofan and said he hoped to become as strong as him, and Chen Xiaofan encouraged him to keep working toward his goal.
• Chen Xiaofan drove the boy and his mother through the busy city and agreed to escort them all the way home.
• The boy directed Chen Xiaofan to the City Lord’s Mansion, where Chen Xiaofan learned that the City Lord was the boy’s father and the woman was the City Lord’s Wife.
• The mother and son stepped down from the carriage, and a guard hurried to report their return to the worried Lord.

Chen Xiaofan accepted the City Lord’s family’s invitation to dinner after rescuing the City Lord’s wife and son from bandits. The City Lord welcomed him into the manor, where they would eat and talk.

• The City Lord’s wife and son invited Chen Xiaofan to their home, and he accepted because it was nearly mealtime.
• The City Lord hurried out to greet his wife and son and learned that bandits had attacked them on the road, killing their driver.
• The City Lord thanked Chen Xiaofan for saving his family, while his wife explained that she would bring guards on future trips.
• The young boy interrupted his parents’ affectionate exchange to say he was hungry, and the City Lord led Chen Xiaofan into the manor for dinner.