Chapter Summaries

Guan Lu and Xie Changmin left Tiger Might Martial Arts School, while Fang Mo settled into the Back Courtyard and expanded his training to saber techniques and alchemy. Guan Lie later entrusted Fang Mo with collecting supplies and preparing all the martial hall’s medicinal liquids.

• Luo Jiangyan, Qin Muxue, Xie Changmin, and Guan Lu departed in a flying craft after Guan Lu gave Fang Mo an encouraging farewell.
• Fang Mo joined the Back Courtyard, greeted its disciples, and continued his stance and fist training as Feng Qingyuan and Chi Jing celebrated their bet.
• After the others left, Fang Mo began practicing the Mad Sand Saber Art, then made a daily routine of martial training, saber practice, and studying Xie Changmin’s alchemy notes.
• Tiger Might Martial Arts School grew busier as its reputation rose, while Xiongying Martial Arts School and the Qin Family remained quiet.
• Guan Lie asked Fang Mo about his alchemy progress and assigned him to collect medicinal ingredients and Exotic Beast Meat from Fuyun Hall, making him responsible for preparing the martial hall’s medicinal liquids.

Fang Mo redeemed supplies at Fuyun Hall, then met with his father, Fang Xiaolian, who demanded that he leave Yunyang to protect the Fang Family’s stability. Fang Mo rejected him and left with Ding Zhiyuan and He Shaobing, newly determined to prove Fang Xiaolian wrong.

• Fang Mo redeemed a large supply of Exotic Beast Meat and Medicinal Liquid using vouchers from Yue Jian.
• Du Chuan summoned Fang Mo to meet President Fang, and Fang Mo got into the car after Fang Xiaolian called to him personally.
• Fang Xiaolian told Fang Mo to leave Yunyang, claiming the Fang Family’s stability depended on removing him.
• Fang Mo rejected his father’s offer of protection and accused him of pretending to care, then left the car in anger.
• Fang Mo departed with Ding Zhiyuan and He Shaobing, deciding to make Fang Xiaolian regret his choice.

Fang Mo refined Dragon Tiger Vitality Liquid to mid-grade quality and earned Guan Lie’s trust to make more advanced medicines. He then practiced the Mad Sand Saber Art and broke through to First Glimpse of the Path.

• Fang Xiaolian recalled his wife’s death and his strained relationship with Fang Mo before ordering Du Chuan to lift Madam’s restrictions, give her the Silver Kill Order, and have the Silver Kill Group force Fang Mo out of Yunyang.
• Fang Mo spent a day refining three hundred bottles of Dragon Tiger Vitality Liquid, with his final batch reaching 76% energy and advancing his alchemy skill.
• Guan Lie praised Fang Mo’s progress and told him to begin making Bone Strengthening Soup and Blood Nourishing Pills, assuring him the Martial Hall would support his efforts.
• After resting, Fang Mo practiced the Mad Sand Saber Art in the courtyard and broke through to First Glimpse of the Path.

After Fang Mo advanced in his martial arts, Guan Lie tested him in a brutal spar and began personally training him. Fang Mo recovered overnight, grew stronger, and impressed his fellow disciples with his rapid progress.

• Fang Mo practiced the Mad Sand Saber Art and Tiger Subduing Fist, reaching Mid Manifesting Strength and astonishing Guan Lie.
• Guan Lie attacked Fang Mo and repeatedly knocked him down, then ordered him to continue training with him the next night.
• Fang Mo took a medicinal bath and discovered that the beating had greatly increased his Tiger Subduing Stance and Tiger Subduing Fist progress.
• Fang Mo woke with his injuries healed and found that Guan Lie's internal force had improved his body's coordination and his fist technique.
• Feng Qingyuan, Yang Yunxing, and Chi Jing reacted with surprise to Fang Mo's advancement, while Fang Mo credited Pharmacist Xie's medicine.

Fang Mo endured half a month of intense training with Guan Lie, improving rapidly before Guan Lie ended the training and regretted giving him to Senior Brother. Fang Mo then struggled to refine Blood Nourishing Pills and received a letter from Liu's Steamed Bun Shop, which prompted him to leave the Martial Hall.

• Fang Mo changed his routine to balance cultivation, alchemy, and nightly training with Guan Lie, using medicine to recover from his daily injuries.
• After half a month, Fang Mo withstood thirty of Guan Lie's moves, and Guan Lie ended their intensive training for a few days while lamenting that he had yielded Fang Mo to Senior Brother.
• Fang Mo attempted to refine a Blood Nourishing Pill but burned the ingredients when the Yellow Earth Grass made the mixture boil too quickly.
• Chen Song delivered Fang Mo a letter from a woman whose family ran Liu's Steamed Bun Shop, and Fang Mo left the Martial Hall after reading it.
• After Fang Mo departed, Chen Song challenged Wang Qing to spar.

Fang Mo gave Aunt Liu 150,000 to supposedly free Uncle Liu, but he suspected her story was a trap after she lied about Xiao Gang's illness and noticed a van following them. He watched from a rooftop as two men abducted Aunt Liu, then set off after the van.

• Aunt Liu told Fang Mo that Uncle Liu had borrowed from loan sharks to pay for Xiao Gang's surgery and begged him for 150,000.
• Fang Mo withdrew the money from the Martial Hall and agreed to accompany Aunt Liu to Wanchun Teahouse on 13th Street.
• As they walked, Aunt Liu claimed Xiao Gang had lung cancer, but Fang Mo noticed her evasions and realized she was lying.
• Fang Mo spotted a van following them, pretended he needed to leave, and slipped into an alley to watch from a rooftop.
• Two men in sunglasses approached Aunt Liu, slapped her, dragged her into the van, and drove away as Fang Mo watched with killing intent.

Fang Mo tracked the men holding Uncle Liu's family to Wanchun Teahouse and stormed in, defeating their guards before clashing with their leader. He gained the upper hand, but the sunglasses-wearing man drew a blade and remained defiant.

• Fang Mo watched Wanchun Teahouse from across the street and used a police raid to count seven people being escorted out.
• The sunglasses-wearing man ordered Uncle Liu, Aunt Liu, and Xiao Gang dealt with after the teahouse was exposed.
• Fang Mo entered the teahouse, revealed himself, and swiftly defeated four black-clothed guards who attacked him.
• The sunglasses-wearing man revealed Peak Manifesting Strength, and he and Fang Mo exchanged powerful blows.
• Fang Mo drove the sunglasses-wearing man back and injured him, but the man grabbed a blade and challenged Fang Mo's assumption that he had won.

Fang Mo killed the Sunglasses Man after he injected himself with a Berserk Gene Potion, but police arrived as Fang Mo tried to flee. A powerful figure approached and called out to Fang Mo as his junior brother.

• The Sunglasses Man attacked Fang Mo with an Alloy Saber, but Fang Mo used the injured black-clothed man to knock him down and seized the saber.
• The Sunglasses Man injected a Berserk Gene Potion, greatly increasing his strength, and Fang Mo fought him with the Whirling Sand Art and Shattering Sand Art.
• Fang Mo severed the Sunglasses Man’s right hand and then killed him with a saber strike to the neck, though Fang Mo was also badly injured.
• Police officers arrived at the building, and Fang Mo prepared to escape before a powerful figure approached and called him junior brother.

After surviving an attack by the Fang Family’s Silver Kill Group, Fang Mo learned that Fang Xiaolian and Hu Yuehua had targeted him and resolved to respond once he grew stronger. He helped Uncle Liu’s family leave Yunyang, then recovered in the Martial Hall’s medicinal bath while nearing breakthroughs in his martial arts.

• Tang Xiong identified the attackers as members of the Silver Kill Group, a force belonging to the Yunyang Fang Family Security Company.
• Fang Mo suspected Fang Xiaolian and Hu Yuehua had ordered the attack and grew cold with anger after learning the truth.
• Uncle Liu’s family apologized for being forced to betray Fang Mo, but he forgave them, gave them the money, and advised them to leave Yunyang.
• Tang Xiong drove Fang Mo back to the Martial Hall, where Fang Mo soaked in medicinal liquid and saw that his martial arts progress had increased.
• Fang Mo resolved to act once he reached Peak Manifesting Strength, murmuring, “You forced my hand!”

Tang Xiong told Guan Lie that the Fang Family had tried to kill Fang, prompting Guan Lie to investigate Silver Kill and protect his martial arts school. At the Fang Family estate, Hu Yuehua learned Silver Kill had been wiped out and was rebuked by the old madam for handling the matter poorly.

• Tang Xiong reported the Wanchun Teahouse incident, and Guan Lie ordered him to investigate the Fang Family's Silver Kill.
• Guan Lie offered to help Tang Xiong improve his martial arts and told him to look after junior brother Fang.
• Fang Yang asked Hu Yuehua and the old madam for more spending money, and the old madam raised his monthly allowance to three million.
• Aunt Sun told Hu Yuehua that Silver Kill had all died after the Public Security Bureau intervened, and Hu Yuehua ordered her to clean up loose ends and investigate Guan Lie's attitude.
• The old madam warned Hu Yuehua to strike decisively if she chose to act, and Hu Yuehua promised there would not be a next time.

After improving his stance and recovering from his injuries, Fang Mo grew closer to Tang Xiong over dinner by the Tuo River. He noticed a crippled homeless man who had fought underground boxing and followed him after Tang Xiong drove away.

• Guan Lie told Tang Xiong that he needed to reach Peak Hidden Strength before pursuing Transformation Force, then praised Fang Mo’s diligence and extraordinary comprehension.
• Tang Xiong watched Fang Mo practice Tiger Subduing Stance and wondered whether Guan Lie had misjudged Fang Mo’s lack of Martial Artist Bone Structure.
• After training and taking medicine, Fang Mo went to the bathhouse and then joined Tang Xiong for dinner at Riverside Restaurant.
• Fang Mo and Tang Xiong shared a relaxed meal, and Tang Xiong told him about Yunyang.
• Fang Mo saw a crippled homeless man eating scraps from the ground, then followed him after Tang Xiong left.

Fang Mo found the crippled Violent Wolf and offered to help heal him in exchange for the Indestructible Diamond Body. Violent Wolf accepted, but Song Hongyi revealed herself and moved to force him to surrender the scroll.

• Fang Mo followed Violent Wolf beneath a bridge and offered to treat his broken legs and neck in exchange for the Indestructible Diamond Body.
• Violent Wolf hesitated to accept Fang Mo's offer, but an unidentified woman in red arrived and called Fang Mo a liar.
• The woman identified herself as Song Hongyi, a descendant of Song Jianbo, and offered Violent Wolf five million for the Indestructible Diamond Body Scroll.
• Violent Wolf recognized Song Hongyi's lineage and refused her offer, then agreed to teach Fang Mo the Indestructible Diamond Body Divine Skill if Fang Mo helped heal him.
• Song Hongyi declared that Violent Wolf would hand over the scroll whether he wanted to or not, and strode toward him.

Fang Mo fought Song Hongyi when she tried to take Violent Wolf, but she escaped with the second half of the Indestructible Diamond Body. He brought the injured Violent Wolf to his rented house and cared for him, while Violent Wolf agreed to teach him the technique if Fang Mo healed his injuries.

• Fang Mo and Song Hongyi fought beneath the bridge, and Fang Mo drove her back with his Tiger Step Iron Mountain Lean.
• Violent Wolf warned Fang Mo that Song Hongyi had the second half of the Indestructible Diamond Body, but Fang Mo failed to catch her as she escaped on a motorcycle.
• Violent Wolf criticized Fang Mo for letting Song Hongyi go, while Fang Mo said he had no reason to kill her.
• Fang Mo carried Violent Wolf to his rented house and carefully washed and dressed him.
• Violent Wolf told Fang Mo that he would teach him the Indestructible Diamond Body if Fang Mo healed his injuries.

Fang Mo negotiated with Violent Wolf for the Indestructible Diamond Body in exchange for treating his severe injuries. Violent Wolf agreed to teach him in stages, and Fang Mo began learning the Twelve Diamond Forms, despite discovering that Song Hongyi possessed the missing five levels and their crucial medicinal prescriptions.

• Fang Mo offered to treat Violent Wolf and cover his expenses in exchange for the Indestructible Diamond Body, while admitting he could not guarantee a cure and would need months to prepare.
• Violent Wolf agreed to the trade, promising to teach the Twelve Diamond Forms and first-level method initially, then reveal later levels as Fang Mo began treatment and achieved results.
• Violent Wolf explained that the complete technique had nine levels but that he possessed only the first four; Song Hongyi likely held the last five levels and the cultivation prescriptions.
• Fang Mo regretted not seriously injuring Song Hongyi when he had the chance, but insisted on proceeding with the trade.
• Violent Wolf began teaching Fang Mo the Twelve Diamond Forms, starting with the Diamond Foundation Form and the Diamond Bone Structure Form.

Fang Mo learned the Indestructible Diamond Body and brought Violent Wolf’s situation to Guan Lie, who agreed to let Violent Wolf stay at the Martial Hall and set safeguards for Fang Mo’s training. Guan Lie accepted Fang Mo calling him Master as Fang Mo returned to practice.

• Fang Mo mastered the first twelve forms of the Indestructible Diamond Body in one session and saw the technique appear on the Bronze Mirror as Beginner.
• Violent Wolf recognized Fang Mo as Iron Mask and learned that Fang Mo studied at Tiger Might Martial Arts School, giving him hope that his injuries could be treated.
• Tang Xiong called Fang Mo back to the Martial Hall, where Guan Lie welcomed him to breakfast instead of scolding him for staying away overnight.
• Fang Mo asked Guan Lie to let Violent Wolf stay at the Martial Hall and explained their bargain involving the Indestructible Diamond Body.
• Guan Lie agreed on the conditions that Violent Wolf obey the rules and Fang Mo train under supervision and report any abnormalities; he accepted Fang Mo calling him Master.

Fang Mo broke through to Minor Mastery in the Tiger Subduing Stance, greatly increasing his strength and renewing his determination to seek revenge. The next morning, he persuaded Ding Zhiyuan to make one final effort before his test and offered to help him train.

• Fang Mo arranged a caregiver and transport for Violent Wolf, then spent the night training until he advanced the Tiger Subduing Stance to Minor Mastery.
• Guan Lie witnessed Fang Mo's breakthrough and was shocked that he had reached Minor Mastery in less than three months.
• Fang Mo tested his new strength by punching a five-hundred-jin sandbag five meters along its track, then continued training and vowed to act against his enemies soon.
• Fang Mo visited Violent Wolf the next morning and found him in better spirits as he recovered under the caregiver's care.
• Ding Zhiyuan told Fang Mo that his test was the next day and that he planned to give up; Fang Mo urged him to try once more, and Ding Zhiyuan agreed to train.

Fang Mo pushed Ding Zhiyuan through an intense training session until Ding Zhiyuan broke through to Ming Jin. Later, Guan Lie received an invitation to a Martial Hall gathering about forming an alliance and decided to attend with Fang Mo that evening.

• Fang Mo repeatedly knocked Ding Zhiyuan down and urged him to unleash his strength, while the trainees watched and discussed his harsh training.
• Ding Zhiyuan finally struck with Ming Jin, and Fang Mo confirmed his breakthrough as the trainees gathered to congratulate him.
• Ding Zhiyuan thanked Fang Mo, but Fang Mo left the crowd and went to the back courtyard to practice his fists.
• Guan Lie watched Fang Mo train with satisfaction as Feng Qingyuan delivered Senior Hong Jiantong's invitation to a Martial Hall gathering about the Martial Arts Hall Alliance.
• Guan Lie first told Feng Qingyuan to go in his place, then decided that Feng Qingyuan and Fang Mo would accompany him to the gathering that night.

Fang Mo continued training the Indestructible Diamond Body before Guan Lie brought him to a Martial Hall gathering, where tensions surfaced between Guan Lie and Hong Jiantong. Hong Jiantong then presented his young disciple, whom Fang Mo recognized.

• Fang Mo trained the Indestructible Diamond Body with sandbags and saw his proficiency reach 15/100, while realizing he needed to obtain the rest of the manual from Song Hongyi.
• Feng Qingyuan told Fang Mo that Guan Lie wanted him to attend a Martial Hall gathering, and Fang Mo went with Guan Lie and Feng Qingyuan.
• Guan Lie received a warm welcome at the gathering, while Hong Jiantong showed displeasure and attempted to challenge him with pointed remarks about his absence from earlier meetings.
• Guan Lie took the seat of honor, forcing Hong Jiantong to sit below him as the gathered hall masters settled in.
• Liu Fengjie asked Hong Jiantong about his gifted young disciple, and Hong Jiantong summoned Xiao Qi, whom Fang Mo recognized.

At a martial arts alliance gathering, Fang Mo was challenged to spar with Chen Yeqi, a gifted descendant of the Yunyang Chen Family. Fang Mo defeated Chen Yeqi in one move, leaving the crowd stunned and Chen Yeqi humiliated.

• Fang Mo identified Chen Yeqi as a top-top grade Bone Structure student from the Yunyang Chen Family, prompting speculation about the family’s ties to Hong Jiantong.
• Hong Jiantong pressed Guan Lie to introduce Fang Mo, then suggested that Fang Mo and Chen Yeqi spar; Guan Lie accepted.
• Chen Yeqi attacked with a powerful kick, but Fang Mo countered with a Cannon Hammer and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Chen Yeqi insisted he had only been careless and demanded another match, but Hong Jiantong ordered him to accept the loss and return to training.

Chen Yingzhong, Shen Kaijiang, and Zhou Yundong planned to secure control of the Yunyang Martial Arts Alliance, but the alliance’s first chairman election turned into a contest between Hong Jiantong and Grandmaster Guan Lie. After Lin Xiangdong argued that strength should decide the choice, several school masters began openly supporting Guan Lie.

• Chen Yingzhong, Shen Kaijiang, and Zhou Yundong discussed Guan Lie’s motives and agreed their allies would prevent him from interfering with their plans for the alliance.
• Hong Jiantong announced the alliance’s establishment and called for the school masters to elect its chairman.
• Several school masters nominated Hong Jiantong, while others waited to see how the contest would unfold.
• Lin Xiangdong argued that the chairman should be chosen for strength and nominated Guan Lie, citing his role in defeating Xiongying Martial Arts School.
• He Yunyang and other school masters began voicing support for Guan Lie as chairman.