Chapter Summaries

Chen Xiaofan defeated Yu Lianzhou with a single Tai Chi Sword move, astonishing the Wudang disciples. He waited two days for Zhang Sanfeng to emerge from seclusion, then set out with Yu Lianzhou to meet him.

• Chen Xiaofan knocked Wang Song unconscious and then sent Yu Lianzhou flying with one move.
• Yu Lianzhou dismissed the watching disciples and ordered them to keep the incident secret to protect Wudang's reputation.
• Yu Lianzhou praised Chen Xiaofan's talent and told him he could meet Zhang Sanfeng after the patriarch emerged from seclusion in two days.
• Yu Lianzhou arranged a secluded courtyard for Chen Xiaofan and confirmed Zhang Sanfeng's emergence date with the attendant Taoist boys.
• Two days later, Yu Lianzhou came to fetch Chen Xiaofan, and they set out to meet Zhang Sanfeng.

Chen Xiaofan demonstrated the true Tai Chi Sword to Zhang Sanfeng, who was astonished that he had reconstructed the complete art from a single branch. Zhang Sanfeng accepted Chen Xiaofan as his final disciple and gave him an ancient little box as a gift.

• Yu Lianzhou told Zhang Sanfeng that Chen Xiaofan's comprehension surpassed Zhang Cuishan's and brought him in to meet his master.
• Zhang Sanfeng asked Chen Xiaofan to demonstrate his Tai Chi Sword, and Chen Xiaofan performed the complete art he had reconstructed.
• Zhang Sanfeng and Yu Lianzhou realized Chen Xiaofan had rebuilt the sword art from the branch Yu Lianzhou had taught him.
• Zhang Sanfeng accepted Chen Xiaofan as his final disciple, making him a first-generation Wudang disciple on the same level as the Wudang Seven Heroes.
• Zhang Sanfeng gave Chen Xiaofan an ancient little box as a first-meeting gift.

Zhang Sanfeng accepted Chen Xiaofan as his disciple and began showering him with precious gifts, convinced Chen’s extraordinary comprehension could lead Wudang to new heights. Chen visited his senior brothers to receive their meeting gifts, while Song Yuanqiao realized he had encountered Chen at Bright Summit.

• Zhang Sanfeng gave Chen Xiaofan three Spirit Peaches and told him to return in three days for martial arts instruction, then sent Yu Lianzhou to guide him around Wudang.
• Yu Lianzhou gave Chen Xiaofan three unusual Spirit Persimmons and brought him to Song Yuanqiao’s residence.
• Song Yuanqiao gave Chen Xiaofan a valuable sword and recognized his resemblance to the figure at Bright Summit.
• Chen Xiaofan told Song Yuanqiao that he had beaten Abbess Miejue and Yuan Yin at Bright Summit, leaving Song stunned.
• Mo Shenggu and Yu Daiyan met Chen Xiaofan, learned that Zhang Sanfeng had accepted him as a disciple, and gave him a Pure Yang Sword Canon and Hundred-Refined Fine Iron.

Chen Xiaofan visited his senior brothers, gained martial arts manuals, and impressed them with his extraordinary comprehension. After settling in a thatched hut on a secluded cliff to practice, he completed his seclusion two days later with his aura greatly strengthened.

• Zhang Songxi gave Chen Xiaofan a copy of the Wudang Sword Formation and welcomed him as a fellow disciple.
• Chen Xiaofan comprehended Yin Liting's Tai Chi Six Ren Sword by listening outside his residence, then defeated Yin Liting in one move and explained the sword art to him.
• Yin Liting gave Chen Xiaofan a copy of the Tai Chi Hua Guang Sword after conceding defeat.
• Chen Xiaofan encountered the other new disciples, who were shocked to hear that True Man Zhang had accepted him as a personal disciple.
• Chen Xiaofan explored Mount Wudang, found a secluded peak with concentrated spiritual energy, and moved into a newly built thatched hut there.
• After two days in seclusion, Chen Xiaofan opened his eyes with surging blood and qi and declared that his training was complete.

After completing his seclusion, Chen Xiaofan gained immense strength and created over a hundred martial arts techniques based on Tai Chi Sword. When the Tianshan Child Elder challenged Yu Lianzhou at Wudang, Chen Xiaofan hurried to the martial training ground to help his senior brother.

• Chen Xiaofan refined his martial arts into Tai Chi Solitary Sword: Swordless Victory and advanced to the Mahayana Transformation Realm.
• Using Tai Chi Sword as his foundation, Chen Xiaofan created over a hundred techniques, including Tai Chi Consecutive Palm and Tai Chi Swimming Dragon Steps.
• A disciple told Chen Xiaofan that the Tianshan Child Elder had come to Wudang and was overpowering Yu Lianzhou in a challenge.
• Chen Xiaofan flew to the martial training ground and arrived at the courtyard.

Chen Xiaofan spotted the weakness in the Tianshan Child Elder’s martial art and helped Yu Lianzhou strike her wrist, turning their duel around. The Tianshan Child Elder then smiled and prepared to test them with another move.

• Yu Lianzhou struggled against the Tianshan Child Elder while the Wudang Sect and her followers watched.
• Chen Xiaofan mastered the Tianshan Plum Blossom Hand and discovered that its weakness lay in the wrist.
• Chen Xiaofan told Yu Lianzhou to strike the Tianshan Child Elder’s wrist, and Yu Lianzhou landed a blow that forced her back five steps.
• The gathered spectators were shocked that Chen Xiaofan had seen through the Tianshan Child Elder’s technique.
• The Tianshan Child Elder challenged Yu Lianzhou to face another move.

Tianshan Child Elder used her signature martial arts against Yu Lianzhou, but Chen Xiaofan revealed the weaknesses of both her techniques and helped Yu defeat her. Enraged, she challenged Chen Xiaofan himself, and he stepped into the arena to face her.

• Tianshan Child Elder activated the Child Elder Divine Skill and smashed Yu Lianzhou's sword with a powerful Plum Blossom Hand strike.
• Chen Xiaofan discovered the weakness of the Child Elder Divine Skill and told Yu Lianzhou to attack Tianshan Child Elder's mouth, slowing and weakening her.
• Tianshan Child Elder unleashed the Tianshan Six Yang Palm, but Chen Xiaofan identified its weakness, allowing Yu Lianzhou to break her palm force with a finger strike.
• Tianshan Child Elder challenged Chen Xiaofan to fight, and he accepted, took Yu Lianzhou's place in the arena, and told her to make her move.

Chen Xiaofan withstood Tianshan Child Elder’s Land Immortal pressure and defeated her with the martial arts she had just used. After she challenged him to fight with Wudang techniques, Chen Xiaofan accepted and took Yu Lianzhou’s sword, leaving the two sides preparing for another clash.

• Tianshan Child Elder unleashed her Land Immortal pressure, but Chen Xiaofan stood unaffected while the people around him struggled.
• Tianshan Child Elder activated her three divine skills and attacked Chen Xiaofan with the Tianshan Rainbow Sword.
• Chen Xiaofan mastered her techniques by watching, then countered with the same skills and shattered her sword, sending her crashing into a wall and vomiting blood.
• Tianshan Child Elder accused Chen Xiaofan of relying on her martial arts and demanded that he use Wudang techniques instead.
• Chen Xiaofan accepted and asked Yu Lianzhou for a sword, while Wudang’s disciples cheered him on.

Chen Xiaofan defeated the Tianshan Child Elder a second time with Wudang’s Tai Chi Solitary Sword: Swordless Victory, forcing her to admit defeat and apologize. After the two sides made peace, the injured Tianshan Child Elder left Wudang, while its disciples crowded around Chen Xiaofan with questions.

• The Tianshan Child Elder recovered enough to challenge Chen Xiaofan again with her Tianshan Rainbow Sword and three supreme internal arts.
• Chen Xiaofan used Tai Chi Solitary Sword: Swordless Victory to shatter her sword and send her crashing through the training grounds into a pool.
• The Tianshan Child Elder conceded defeat, apologized to Wudang, and offered two Heavenly Mountain Snow Lotus plants as compensation.
• Chen Xiaofan accepted the apology, and both sides made peace before Wudang disciples carried the injured Tianshan Child Elder down the mountain.
• Wudang disciples surrounded Chen Xiaofan and asked how he had defeated the Tianshan Child Elder and whether he was a Land Immortal.

Chen Xiaofan revealed that he was a Land Immortal, reassured his fellow Wudang disciples, and received gifts for helping Yu Lianzhou defeat Tianshan Child Elder. As the disciples prepared to leave, Luo Xuan delivered Zhang Sanfeng’s order for them to gather the next morning to learn the Wudang Cotton Palm.

• Chen Xiaofan told the Wudang disciples that Tianshan Child Elder’s martial arts were formidable and confirmed that he was a Land Immortal.
• Chen Xiaofan comforted his discouraged brothers and resolved to teach martial arts to everyone in Wudang.
• Yu Lianzhou and the other Wudang heroes thanked Chen Xiaofan, and their fellow disciples presented him with gifts.
• Chen Xiaofan learned that Zhang Sanfeng had saved Zhang Cuishan, then said farewell to his brothers.
• Luo Xuan announced that Zhang Sanfeng wanted the disciples at the square the next morning to explain martial arts and teach the Wudang Cotton Palm.

Zhang Sanfeng reflected on Chen Xiaofan defeating Tianshan Child Elder and realized that watching his young disciple fight had helped him break through to the Peak Land Immortal realm. The next morning, he told his disciples what had happened and rewarded Chen Xiaofan with all one hundred of the sect’s Nine Yuan Pills.

• Zhang Sanfeng recalled how Chen Xiaofan had overwhelmed Tianshan Child Elder and driven her into the pond.
• Zhang Sanfeng realized that watching Chen Xiaofan fight had given him the insight to advance to Peak Land Immortal.
• Zhang Sanfeng waited for his disciples in the square the next morning, where Yu Lianzhou and Zhang Songxi sensed his strengthened aura.
• Zhang Sanfeng told his disciples that Chen Xiaofan’s display had enabled his breakthrough.
• Zhang Sanfeng gave Chen Xiaofan one hundred Nine Yuan Pills, and the other disciples congratulated him.

Chen Xiaofan received a hundred Nine Yuan Pills before watching Zhang Sanfeng demonstrate Wudang Cotton Palm. While the other disciples failed to understand it, Chen Xiaofan comprehended it repeatedly and created several powerful palm techniques.

• Chen Xiaofan thanked Zhang Sanfeng and accepted a hundred Nine Yuan Pills.
• Zhang Sanfeng distributed copied manuals and demonstrated Wudang Cotton Palm before the disciples read them.
• Chen Xiaofan immediately mastered Wudang Cotton Palm through his exceptional comprehension.
• Zhang Sanfeng demonstrated the technique again, and Chen Xiaofan created Great Vehicle Wudang Cotton Palm, Great Vehicle Divine Thunder Palm, and Great Vehicle Bone Shattering Cotton Palm.
• Zhang Cuishan, Yu Lianzhou, Zhang Songxi, and the other disciples admitted they still could not understand the technique, and Zhang Sanfeng asked Chen Xiaofan how much he had comprehended.

Chen Xiaofan admitted he had mastered the palm technique and demonstrated power that surpassed Zhang Sanfeng's. He left his senior brothers for remedial lessons and went to his hut to begin fusing techniques.

• Chen Xiaofan pretended he had not understood the palm technique to spare his senior brothers embarrassment, but Zhang Sanfeng and the others urged him to speak honestly.
• Chen Xiaofan declared that he had mastered the palm technique and reached consummate perfection.
• Chen Xiaofan demonstrated the technique, blasting a distant boulder into powder with a palm strike.
• Yu Lianzhou and Mo Shenggu praised Chen Xiaofan, while Zhang Sanfeng recognized that his skill exceeded his own and dismissed him from the lesson.
• Chen Xiaofan returned to his thatched hut at the back mountain, sat down, and prepared to begin fusing them.

Chen Xiaofan dismantled and transformed Zhang Sanfeng’s Wudang Cotton Palm into more than a hundred powerful martial arts techniques. Zhang Sanfeng watched him practice in the back mountain and realized Wudang had a gifted successor.

• Chen Xiaofan used his comprehension to create more than a hundred techniques from Wudang Cotton Palm, including Wudang Cotton Leg, Wudang Divine Fist, and Wudang Mountain Splitting Rock Finger.
• Chen Xiaofan tested the new techniques in the back mountain, shattering stones and sending powerful auras through the mist.
• Zhang Sanfeng sensed the commotion while teaching the Wudang Seven Heroes and went to investigate.
• Zhang Sanfeng saw Chen Xiaofan practicing his newly created techniques and was astonished by their number and power.
• Zhang Sanfeng felt relieved that Wudang had a successor, and Chen Xiaofan noticed him and asked why he had come.

Zhang Sanfeng passed Chen Xiaofan the Tai Chi Pure Yang Limitless Technique and demonstrated it for him. Chen Xiaofan comprehended the technique, a Tai Chi Undying Divine Skill, and the immortal Great Evolution Divine Art, while Zhang Sanfeng finished demonstrating and asked what he had learned.

• Zhang Sanfeng praised Chen Xiaofan’s martial arts talent and offered to pass on the Tai Chi Pure Yang Limitless Technique.
• Zhang Sanfeng demonstrated the technique, displaying its powerful internal energy and effects.
• Chen Xiaofan’s comprehension reached its peak, and he learned the Tai Chi Pure Yang Limitless Technique, the Tai Chi Undying Divine Skill, and the immortal Great Evolution Divine Art.
• Zhang Sanfeng completed the demonstration and asked Chen Xiaofan how much he had comprehended.

Chen Xiaofan refined the Immortal Ascension Method, removed its flaws, and cultivated into the Qi Refinement realm. He rose into the air with a tremendous aura, leaving Zhang Sanfeng staring in shock.

• Zhang Sanfeng noticed Chen Xiaofan had entered a state of sudden enlightenment and stayed silent so he would not disturb him.
• Chen Xiaofan detected and removed flaws in the Immortal Art · Great Evolution Divine Art · Achieve Immortality on the Spot, improving the cultivation method.
• Chen Xiaofan began cultivating the perfected method and broke through the barrier between mortals and immortals into the Qi Refinement realm.
• Chen Xiaofan expelled impurities, healed his hidden injuries, and discovered that the white mist around him was spiritual energy.
• Chen Xiaofan took a breath of spiritual energy, and his surging aura cracked the ground and lifted him into the air as Zhang Sanfeng watched in horror.

After Zhang Sanfeng explained an internal cultivation technique, Chen Xiaofan comprehended an Immortal Ascension Method and absorbed the world’s spiritual energy, rapidly advancing to Qi Cultivation Eighth Layer. He returned to Zhang Sanfeng and said he had fully comprehended the technique.

• Zhang Sanfeng sensed Chen Xiaofan’s overwhelming aura and realized he might have become an immortal through his comprehension.
• Chen Xiaofan absorbed the world’s spiritual energy, which he alone could sense and use.
• Zhang Sanfeng saw his white hair turn black as nearby plants grew lush and a fruit tree blossomed and bore fruit.
• Zhang Sanfeng regained his youth and celebrated that an immortal had emerged from Wudang.
• Chen Xiaofan devoured spiritual energy and advanced from Qi Cultivation First Layer to Qi Cultivation Eighth Layer.
• Chen Xiaofan descended behind Zhang Sanfeng and said he had fully comprehended the internal cultivation technique.

Chen Xiaofan achieved immortality after comprehending an Immortal Ascension Method from Zhang Sanfeng’s inner cultivation technique, while Zhang Sanfeng also regained his youth. The Wudang disciples learned what had happened and stared at Chen Xiaofan in disbelief.

• Zhang Sanfeng recognized that Chen Xiaofan’s aura had transformed and saw that he had become extraordinary.
• Yu Lianzhou, Zhang Cuishan, Zhang Songxi, Yin Liting, and the other Wudang disciples rushed to the back mountain after feeling a terrifying pressure.
• The disciples noticed Zhang Sanfeng’s black hair and Chen Xiaofan’s radiant appearance, and Zhang Sanfeng told them to stand down.
• Zhang Sanfeng announced that Chen Xiaofan had become an immortal, leaving the disciples stunned.
• Zhang Sanfeng recounted how Chen Xiaofan had comprehended an Immortal Ascension Method from his inner cultivation technique and achieved immortality on the spot.

Chen Xiaofan became an immortal, stunning the people of Wudang, while Zhang Sanfeng regained his youth and gained fifty years of life from Chen’s ascension. Zhang Sanfeng rewarded Chen Xiaofan, Yu Lianzhou, and an elder, and news of Chen’s immortality spread across Mount Wudang.

• The Wudang disciples stared at Chen Xiaofan in disbelief after realizing he had become an immortal.
• Zhang Sanfeng said Chen Xiaofan’s ascension had restored his youth and extended his lifespan by fifty years.
• Zhang Sanfeng allowed Yu Lianzhou and the elder who brought Chen Xiaofan to claim rewards from the Scripture Depository.
• Zhang Sanfeng gave Chen Xiaofan unrestricted access to every floor of the Scripture Depository and its secret manuals.
• Chen Xiaofan left with Yu Lianzhou, and news of his immortality spread throughout Mount Wudang.

News that Chen Xiaofan had become an immortal spread through the sect, shocking the disciples and elders who knew him. After Chen Xiaofan and Yu Lianzhou visited Elder Lu, they prepared to go to the Scripture Depository, but a female disciple stopped Chen Xiaofan with a question.

• Disciples and elders reacted with disbelief after hearing that Chen Xiaofan had become an immortal.
• Chen Xiaofan and Yu Lianzhou arrived at Elder Lu's residence as disciples gathered to see the new immortal.
• Elder Lu saw Chen Xiaofan's transformed appearance and learned he would receive great benefits for recommending him.
• Elder Lu proposed that they go to the Scripture Depository, but a female disciple asked Chen Xiaofan if she could pose a question.