Chapter Summaries

After Jiang Chen’s defeat, Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu interrogated his surviving accomplices and learned how to open his hidden treasury. Cheng Jiashu suspected the sealed entrance beneath the well led to a legendary ruin, and Fang Cheng prepared to investigate it while Xu Hao guarded Qian Dongming.

• Cheng Jiashu emerged from the well and told Fang Cheng and Xu Hao that he had sealed the Inner World’s array core and found a secret passage beneath the well.
• Xu Hao forced Supervisor Wu and Qian Dongming out of the ruined side hall, where Cheng Jiashu questioned them about Jiang Chen’s operations and treasury.
• Supervisor Wu revealed the treasury’s key and incantation, but Jiang Chen’s curse killed him after he disclosed the secret and condemned his former master.
• Cheng Jiashu explained the curse and revealed that he had only bluffed Supervisor Wu about the treasury, then speculated that the sealed door below the well led to a legendary ruin.
• Fang Cheng ordered Xu Hao to guard Qian Dongming and warn them of anyone approaching while he and Cheng Jiashu prepared to enter the well.

Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu entered an underground passage beneath Ancient Locust Village and opened Jiang Chen’s hidden vault when Fang Cheng recognized and recited the Primeval Vowel. They passed through the gate into a devastated area filled with ash and blood, where they stopped in shock.

• Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu explored the tunnel beneath the dry well and discovered it was part of the Gathering Yin Formation connected to Jiang Chen’s lair and the Cheng Clan’s lost secret realm.
• Cheng Jiashu thanked Fang Cheng for helping him pursue vengeance against Jiang Chen, and Fang Cheng urged him to continue toward the vault.
• Cheng Jiashu used the Key Stone on the dark red gate, but Fang Cheng could not open it through brute force, and Cheng Jiashu could not decipher the box’s inscribed symbols.
• Fang Cheng recognized the symbols as Primeval Vowel, recited the incantation, and opened the gate into a light passage.
• Fang Cheng tested the passage and entered with Cheng Jiashu, and they emerged into a ruined landscape filled with broken buildings, scorched earth, ash, and pools of blood.

Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu explored the ruined Inner World beneath Ancient Locust Village and discovered a narrow space rift that might lead to the Other Shore World. They agreed to conceal the entrance and secure Qian Dongming’s control of the land while they waited for the earth veins to recover.

• Cheng Jiashu explained that Jiang Chen’s collapsed Inner World had survived underground because its spatial framework remained attached to the earth vein.
• Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu searched the ruined Ancestral Hall, found antiques and gold bars, and gathered them to take away.
• Cheng Jiashu identified a faint space rift as a possible entrance to the Other Shore World and said its depleted energy meant it could not safely be widened yet.
• Fang Cheng and Cheng Jiashu agreed to hide the entrance from outside forces and wait for the earth veins to regain energy.
• Cheng Jiashu revealed that Qian Dongming controlled the land through a Pharmaceutical Company, and he volunteered to handle the arrangements to secure him.

Fang Cheng returned from Jiang Chen’s lair with Cheng Jiashu and a backpack of valuables, then secured Qian Dongming’s cooperation by offering him a chance to treat his cancer. After assigning Cheng Jiashu and Xu Hao to handle the aftermath in Ancient Locust Village, Fang Cheng flew away toward the sanatorium, leaving the others stunned by his growing power.

• Fang Cheng carried Cheng Jiashu and the loaded backpack out of the well, then told Xu Hao that the problems below had been resolved.
• Cheng Jiashu offered Qian Dongming his life in exchange for helping the organization acquire and develop land in Ancient Locust Village, and Qian Dongming agreed to fund and manage the project.
• Fang Cheng reset Qian Dongming’s broken leg and offered him a chance to cure his cancer if he served the organization faithfully.
• Fang Cheng told Cheng Jiashu to manage the handover and ordered Xu Hao to stay in the village for half a month before taking off toward the sky.
• Cheng Jiashu, Xu Hao, and Qian Dongming watched Fang Cheng disappear, then headed to the Village Guardians’ dormitory.

After four days of routine life and intense training, Fang Cheng tested the new Condensing Qi into Gang effect he had gained from advancing Palm Technique. He effortlessly sliced through a thick pine tree with crystalline Gang Qi and prepared to continue his training.

• Fang Cheng maintained his daily routine at Cuigu Sanatorium, checked on his family, and let Lin Chuqiao and the professor manage the Illumination Society’s preparations.
• Cheng Jiashu and Xu Hao completed the Ancient Locust Village property transfer with Qian Dongming’s cooperation, securing the land for the Illumination Society.
• Fang Cheng completed two thousand charged pull-ups in the Back Mountain forest and saw that Pull-Ups had reached LV4 with 298 of 2500 EXP.
• Fang Cheng reviewed the Condensing Qi into Gang effect he had gained when Palm Technique advanced to Master Level.
• Fang Cheng compressed his True Qi into crystalline Gang Qi and cut through a thick pine tree with a casual sweep of his hand.

Fang Cheng tested the offensive power of his newly mastered Condensing Qi into Gang, developing ranged palm and fist attacks capable of devastating the forest. After unleashing a Qilin Arm punch that destroyed a swath of woodland and struck a hill more than five hundred meters away, he decided to leave before the commotion attracted attention.

• Fang Cheng tested Gang Qi on trees, grass, and stone, confirming that it strengthened his palm strikes and clawing attacks.
• Fang Cheng released a Sonic Hand Blade that cut through vegetation and carved a trench more than ten meters long.
• Fang Cheng formed a golden Gang Qi sword and slashed through several trees before cutting a deep crack into a rock wall nearly a hundred meters away.
• Fang Cheng combined Condensing Qi into Gang with the Qilin Arm and Ghost Back, launching a golden fist shadow that tore a wide trench through the forest and struck a hill more than five hundred meters away.
• Fang Cheng realized the destruction might have alerted monitoring personnel near the Special Search Team's Secret Base, so he dressed and ran down the mountain.

Fang Cheng treated Gu Weiping’s chronic back pain and helped stabilize a stream of injured patients, gaining experience in several medical skills. He then left the sanatorium to answer Lin Chuqiao’s call about a problem involving the Illumination Society.

• Fang Cheng used Tui Na and True Qi to ease Gu Weiping’s lumbar pain, then arranged to continue his rehabilitation the next day.
• Fang Cheng joined Lin Yue in treating a severely injured Special Search Team combatant and several other patients with fractures and dislocations.
• Fang Cheng gained experience in Bone Setting, Tui Na, Acupoint Striking, and Qi Gong, and considered using his developing microscopic qi-control technique to treat Qian Dongming’s cancer.
• Fang Cheng packed his clothes, Red Underpants, and Evil Spirit Mask, then left the sanatorium, telling Lin Yue he had business at home.
• Lin Chuqiao called to say the group was waiting at the gathering spot, and Fang Cheng revealed that he was heading there because something had gone wrong with the Illumination Society.

Fang Cheng rushed to the Illumination Society’s temporary base after Li Jie and Li Fei were ambushed while defecting from an assassin organization. He destroyed the Three-Corpse Brain Spirit Pill parasites in Li Fei’s body and began forcing the poison out, while Li Jie remained captive.

• Lin Chuqiao told Fang Cheng that Li Jie had been captured and Li Fei had returned badly wounded after their defection was exposed.
• Fang Cheng examined Li Fei and learned from the Professor that the Three-Corpse Brain Spirit Pill parasites would reach his brain and kill him without an antidote.
• Li Ran begged Fang Cheng to save Li Fei and rescue Li Jie, and Fang Cheng promised he could cure the poison.
• Fang Cheng used controlled True Qi to destroy the parasites in Li Fei’s brain, spine, blood vessels, and organs.
• Fang Cheng gave Li Fei an emetic and used True Qi to force him to vomit foul, bloodied contents into a basin.

Fang Cheng saved Li Fei by expelling the gu worms, then learned that Black Shark had abducted Li Jie after the three former assassins defected to the Illumination Society. Li Fei and Li Ran revealed that Ghost Fox lured Li Jie into a trap with a false promise to spare their old instructor, leaving Fang Cheng poised to plan a rescue.

• Fang Cheng used qi gong therapy to expel the gu worms from Li Fei and warned that he needed rest to recover.
• Fang Cheng vowed that the Illumination Society would retaliate against whoever harmed its members, then asked the Professor about the kidnappers.
• The Professor identified the enemy as Black Shark, an international assassin organization, and explained that Li Jie was a Gold-Rank Assassin while Li Fei and Li Ran were Silver-Rank Assassins.
• Li Fei and Li Ran came out to beg Fang Cheng to rescue Li Jie, then explained that they had defected from Black Shark and taken a Secret Scroll listing its personnel in Xia Country.
• Li Fei said Ghost Fox had threatened their old instructor with execution and offered to release him if Li Jie returned the Secret Scroll and completed an assassination, but Li Jie went to the meeting with a fake scroll and walked into a trap.

Li Fei told Fang Cheng how Ghost Fox had captured Li Jie and threatened the Illumination Society unless Fang Cheng brought the real Secret Scroll to Peace Farm that night. Fang Cheng accepted the threat, planned a counterattack, and chose Li Fei, Fat Tiger, and Douzi to help him; Douzi agreed after he reassured her.

• Li Fei recounted how Ghost Fox had captured Li Jie, poisoned him, and demanded the real Secret Scroll at Peace Farm by midnight.
• Fang Cheng pledged to protect Li Fei and Li Ran, then asked Li Fei to explain Ghost Fox's powers and the enemy's forces.
• Fang Cheng decided to strike back and have Li Fei identify the Black Shark killers, while Li Ran volunteered to lead them.
• Fang Cheng assigned Fat Tiger to protect Li Fei and chose Douzi to scout the farm with her ability to communicate with animals.
• Fang Cheng took Douzi's hand and reassured her, and she agreed to join the operation.

Black Shark commander Ghost Fox held Li Jie captive at Peace Farm and prepared an ambush for the Illumination Society, hoping to recover the stolen Secret Scroll list. As the storm gathered, the farm's perimeter remained quiet and the Society had not arrived.

• Old Badger and Blood Jackal guarded the bound homeowner's family while Blood Jackal threatened them and tortured Li Jie for information.
• Li Jie refused to reveal the Illumination Society's secrets and warned that its president would kill them.
• Ghost Fox stopped the torture, ordered Li Jie kept alive as bait, and asked his men what they knew about the Illumination Society.
• Old Badger recounted the Society's clash in the Eastern Capital, while Ghost Fox explained that his execution threat was meant to lure them into his chosen battlefield.
• Ghost Fox watched the empty road as the storm approached, waiting for the Illumination Society to arrive with the stolen list.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Fang Cheng and his team (Fat Tiger, Li Fei, and Douzi) approach Peace Farm to rescue Li Jie, using a hidden, indirect route to avoid detection.
• Douzi uses her ability to control rats, sending a swarm of them to infiltrate the farm and locate Li Jie.

Character Developments

• Fang Cheng demonstrates strategic thinking and caution in planning the rescue operation.
• Douzi showcases her unique ability and gains confidence in her skills.
• Li Fei provides valuable intelligence about the enemy's layout and strengths.

Significant Themes

• Strategic planning and adaptability in the face of adversity.
• The power of unique abilities and unconventional tactics.
• The importance of reconnaissance and intelligence gathering in warfare.

Character Interactions

• Fang Cheng and Douzi: Fang Cheng encourages and supports Douzi, helping her gain confidence in her abilities.
• Fang Cheng and Li Fei: Li Fei shares his knowledge of the enemy's layout, and Fang Cheng values his input in planning the operation.
• Fat Tiger and the team: Fat Tiger provides comic relief and supports the team's morale, while also being ready for action when needed.

Ghost Fox’s Black Shark team prepared an ambush at Peace Farm for the Illumination Society’s leader, expecting to recover the secret scroll name list and kill their visitors. Fat Tiger and Li Fei arrived to bargain for Li Jie, but the lights went out and an unknown figure smashed through the main building’s wall.

• Ghost Fox ordered his men to kill everyone if the Illumination Society’s leader failed to arrive, while he laid out the farm’s defenses and warned his men to stay alert.
• Old Badger reported that two people had arrived, and Ghost Fox sensed their approach through his gu insects.
• Fat Tiger and Li Fei entered the floodlit courtyard, where Ghost Fox recognized Li Fei and demanded the list in exchange for Li Jie.
• Fat Tiger insisted on seeing Li Jie before handing over the list, then gave Old Badger a document bag to inspect.
• Fat Tiger distracted Old Badger by pointing out the darkness, and the lights across the farm suddenly went out.
• A powerful impact demolished the west wall of the living room; Ghost Fox shielded himself with psychic power as a figure appeared through the breach.

Key Plot Points and Events

• The masked man (Fang Cheng) arrives, smashing through the wall to rescue Li Jie, displaying immense physical strength and speed.
• Ghost Fox and Blood Jackal are humiliated and enraged by Fang Cheng's display of force.
• Fang Cheng returns to the battlefield, confronting Ghost Fox and his men.
• Blood Jackal is beheaded by Fang Cheng's Qi Blade, inciting Ghost Fox's rage.
• Fang Cheng lands and engages the Black Shark killers, demonstrating his overwhelming combat prowess.

Character Developments

• Fang Cheng (President): Shows his true strength and abilities, becoming a dominant force on the battlefield.
• Ghost Fox: Becomes increasingly enraged and desperate as Fang Cheng turns the tide of battle.
• Blood Jackal: Dies a gruesome death, serving as a catalyst for Ghost Fox's wrath.

Significant Themes

• Power and Dominance: Fang Cheng's display of strength asserts his dominance over Ghost Fox and his men.
• Rage and Desperation: Ghost Fox's growing anger and desperation as he faces Fang Cheng's onslaught.
• Humiliation and Revenge: Both sides seek to humiliate and defeat the other, with Fang Cheng's actions sparking Ghost Fox's desire for revenge.

Character Interactions

• Fang Cheng vs. Ghost Fox: The two leaders clash, with Fang Cheng's strength and abilities proving superior to Ghost Fox's Psychic Powers.
• Fang Cheng vs. Black Shark Killlers: Fang Cheng demonstrates his overwhelming combat prowess against the Black Shark Organization's killers.
• Ghost Fox and Blood Jackal: Their dynamic shifts as Blood Jackal's death enrages Ghost Fox, leading to his desperate orders to kill Fang Cheng.

Fang Cheng broke free of the Black Shark Organization’s combined attacks and slaughtered the assassins at Peace Farm. Ghost Fox was left cornered as Li Fei and Fat Tiger joined Fang Cheng, refusing his offer to bargain.

• Fang Cheng killed several Black Shark assassins, then shattered Ghost Fox’s psychic barrier and threw him into a wall.
• Ghost Fox and three Gold Medal Killers pinned Fang Cheng with a gravity field and sent poisonous Gu Insects toward him, but his Golden Flame burned them away.
• A sniper named Poison Bee fired an armor-piercing bullet, which Fang Cheng caught and hurled back to kill him before bursting the gravity field.
• Fang Cheng killed the three Gold Medal Killers while Fat Tiger and Li Fei fought the remaining assassins.
• After Fat Tiger and Li Fei finished their opponents, Ghost Fox begged Fang Cheng to let him go, but Li Fei and Fat Tiger rejected his offer.

Fang Cheng and the Illumination Society killed Ghost Fox and Black Shark’s men, then Li Fei avenged Instructor Li by killing Old Badger. The rescued family watched the group leave, while Fang Cheng promised that the remaining evidence would be cleaned up.

• Ghost Fox threatened the group with Utopia and tried to bargain for his life, but Fang Cheng exposed his lies and Fat Tiger attacked him.
• Ghost Fox used Eye of Hallucination to freeze Fat Tiger and fled, but Fang Cheng killed him with a Golden Crescent Qi Blade.
• Fang Cheng spotted Old Badger hiding in a drainage ditch, and Li Fei chased him down and killed him to avenge Instructor Li.
• Li Fei asked how they would handle the bodies, and Fang Cheng said he would arrange for the site to be cleaned up before leaving with Fat Tiger and Li Fei.
• The farmstead owners and their children watched from the building and realized Fang Cheng had rescued them.

After destroying the Black Shark Organization’s force at Peace Farm, Fang Cheng arranged a cover story and studied the combat experience and Life Energy gained through his Evil Spirit Mask. He resisted the mask’s temptation to pursue power through slaughter and sealed it away, while resolving to confront Utopia and its leader.

• Fang Cheng returned home after checking that Li Jie’s injuries had stabilized and instructed the others at Cloud Hidden Small Dwelling to keep a low profile and watch for retaliation.
• Fang Cheng arranged for Chen Chen’s Red Tiger Gang to clean up Peace Farm and for Zhou Yongnian to investigate under the cover of an ordinary kidnapping and gangland killing.
• Fang Cheng considered Ghost Fox’s claim that Utopia was pursuing a Grand Plan, possibly connected to the strange changes in the Western Mountains, and vowed to face Utopia’s leader.
• Fang Cheng reviewed the combat experience and Life Energy absorbed by his Evil Spirit Mask, which had raised his Spirit and Physique progress after the slaughter.
• Fang Cheng recognized that the mask’s power could lead him to lose his reason like White Owl, rejected its temptation, and sealed it in his satchel.

Fang Cheng bought his mother a Bentley and reflected on his recent work, the Illumination Society, and Li Jie’s recovery while heading to pick up Wen Xin from school. He found Wen Xin leaving her closing ceremony and called her over to the car.

• Fang Cheng signed the contract for a top-spec Bentley Flying Spur with help from Ning Yue, who refused the red envelope he offered her.
• Su Xiaoyong drove Fang Cheng toward Old Factory Street as Fang Cheng reviewed the quiet aftermath of the Black Shark massacre and considered using his medical skills to help Li Jie recover.
• Fang Cheng checked his Tui Na skill experience and noted that his treatment work at the Western Mountains sanatorium was bringing him closer to several skill breakthroughs.
• Su Xiaoyong reminded Fang Cheng that Wen Xin’s school closing ceremony had ended, so Fang Cheng redirected the car to Yuying Private Elementary School.
• Wen Xin left the school and ran toward Fang Cheng’s Bentley after he called her name.

Fang Cheng picked up Wen Xin after her excellent exam results and promised to take her and Xiumei to the seaside during summer break. He brought her back to the renovated Sleeve Building, where the neighbors admired his success, before a crash and Zhou Peng’s cries drew He Huiqin away.

• Wen Xin showed Fang Cheng that she had placed second in her class and fifth in the school, and she planned to give her 3,000-yuan scholarship to her hardworking mother.
• Fang Cheng reminded Wen Xin to strengthen her Chinese reading before next year’s junior-high entrance exam and confirmed he would take her to the seaside with Xiumei during summer break.
• Su Xiaoyong drove Fang Cheng and Wen Xin to No. 58 Sleeve Building, where neighbors remarked on Fang Cheng’s Bentley and the building’s extensive renovations.
• Fang Cheng sent Wen Xin home with fruit, then joined Li Biyun and the neighbors in the corridor as they praised his success and discussed his future marriage.
• A crash and Zhou Peng’s wailing came from the Zhou family’s apartment, so He Huiqin hurried home while Fang Cheng followed Li Biyun into the large flat under construction.

Fang Cheng arranged a Bentley and Su Xiaoyong as his mother’s driver and protector while they inspected the renovation, then the chapter shifted to White Ghost confronting Night Owl in a luxury suite. White Ghost spared Night Owl’s companion and left Night Owl asking how his captain had found him.

• Fang Cheng checked the renovation progress with Manager Wu and settled several adjustments to the apartment’s design.
• Fang Cheng gave Li Biyun a Bentley and introduced Su Xiaoyong as her driver and bodyguard, persuading her to accept by stressing her safety and the family’s growing business.
• Su Xiaoyong reflected on his hope of belonging to a family and resolved to protect the peace Fang Cheng had built.
• White Ghost appeared silently in Night Owl’s suite and held a tachi at his throat after Night Owl tried to evade him.
• White Ghost threatened Night Owl’s companion, but spared her after Night Owl pleaded that she knew nothing, then ordered her to leave.
• Night Owl recognized White Ghost as his captain and asked how he had found him.