Chapter Summaries

After Ji Boying revealed that the masked attackers were likely from a powerful righteous sect, he warned Lin Zhennan that many more people might covet the Bixie Sword Manual. He identified the attackers’ leader as Zuo Lengchan of the Songshan Sect, leaving Lin Zhennan terrified of accusing them.

• Lin Zhennan asked Ji Boying who the masked attackers were, and Ji warned that many people in the martial world wanted the Lin family’s Bixie Sword Manual.
• Ji Boying assured Lin Zhennan that Mount Hua Sect had no need to covet the manual and urged him to protect it from others.
• Lin Zhennan guessed that only Shaolin, Wudang, or the Songshan Sect could field such powerful fighters.
• Ji Boying explained that the attackers’ imposing sword style pointed to the Songshan Sect and identified their leader as Zuo Lengchan.
• Lin Zhennan realized he could not safely accuse the Songshan Sect and feared its strength.

Lin Zhennan sought Ji Boying’s protection for his family from the Songshan Sect and agreed to offer the Mount Hua Sect a share in the Fuwei Escort Agency’s expansion. After Lin Zhennan invited Sect Leader Yue to Fuzhou, he asked Ji Boying to accompany him somewhere else.

• Lin Zhennan knelt before Ji Boying and begged him to save his family from the Songshan Sect.
• Ji Boying offered Mount Hua’s protection while cautioning that the sect had few experienced disciples.
• Lin Zhennan proposed that Mount Hua oversee new Fuwei Escort Agency branches in several regions in exchange for cooperation.
• Ji Boying accepted the proposal in principle and asked Lin Zhennan to invite Sect Leader Yue to Fuzhou to discuss the arrangement.
• Lin Zhennan wrote the letter, then asked Ji Boying to accompany him to one more place.

Lin Zhennan and Ji Boying uncovered the Bixie Sword Manual and learned that it offered rapid strength at a terrible price. Lin Zhennan left with the manual, torn over whether to practice it, and remembered that Lin Pingzhi should be asleep with his mother.

• Lin Zhennan told Ji Boying about his family’s hidden inheritance, and they went together to the old residence to retrieve it.
• Lin Zhennan opened the cassock and was horrified by its first eight characters, so Ji Boying took him back to examine it under a lamp.
• Lin Zhennan tried reading the manual and suffered a strange surge of heat and energy, while Ji Boying remained composed.
• Ji Boying explained that the Evil Warding Swordplay could quickly make Lin Zhennan strong enough to challenge Yu Canghai and eventually Zuo Lengchan, but that its power came with a price.
• Lin Zhennan left carrying the cassock, struggled with whether to practice, and stopped outside Lin Pingzhi’s door after remembering his son was sleeping with his mother.

Lin Zhennan returned to his room and, after struggling to fulfill his promise to give Madam Wang another son, found new vigor by looking at the Bixie Sword Manual. Ji Boying rejected the manual’s quick-results approach and continued considering how to create a martial art, while Lin Zhennan decided to rely more firmly on the Mount Hua Sect.

• Lin Zhennan reassured Lin Pingzhi and sent him back to his room so he could speak privately with Madam Wang.
• Lin Zhennan tried to have another child with Madam Wang but failed until he looked at the Bixie Sword Manual and regained his vigor.
• Ji Boying considered the Bixie Sword Manual unsuitable for his long-term cultivation and reviewed his own martial arts progress.
• Lin Zhennan told Ji Boying he would think over the sword manual again, then resolved to have more sons and rely on the Mount Hua Sect.

Ji Boying began practicing the Qingcheng Sect’s hidden-projectile technique while planning to strengthen the Mount Hua Sect by developing a new martial art. The chapter left him sketching at the Lin family training ground as Lin Pingzhi arrived to practice.

• Lin Zhennan returned to his study, pleased with the sword manual and planning to ask Sect Leader Yue for health-preserving techniques.
• Ji Boying examined the three manuals and judged Green Character Nine Strikes, City Character Eighteen Breaks and Heart Severing Palm to be formidable arts.
• Ji Boying simplified Green Character Nine Strikes, City Character Eighteen Breaks into Throwing Stones and gained proficiency by tossing a pebble.
• Ji Boying considered how to raise the strength of the Mount Hua Sect and continued sketching ideas for a new martial art.
• Lin Pingzhi entered the training ground dressed for practice and asked Ji Boying what he was doing.

Ji Boying studied how to combine three internal cultivation techniques into a new art while Lin Pingzhi began practicing his family sword manual. Ji Boying made the three techniques circulate through his meridians and recorded the adjustments in a booklet.

• Lin Pingzhi got up late after staying awake and making ambitious plans to improve his martial arts.
• Ji Boying offered Lin Pingzhi three Qingcheng Sect manuals, but Lin Pingzhi declined and returned to practicing the Bixie Sword Manual.
• Lin Pingzhi watched Ji Boying study a separate booklet and wondered about the martial art it contained.
• Ji Boying worked to combine the Mount Hua beginner's mental method, the Primordial Chaos Technique, and the Purple Mist Divine Skill.
• Ji Boying adjusted the techniques as their internal energy circulated through his Twelve Main Meridians, then recorded the workable routes in his booklet.

Ji Boying created a passive form of the Purple Mist Divine Skill by combining its circulation routes with ideas from other techniques, then began integrating the Primordial Chaos Technique’s union of movement and stillness. He used the Primordial Chaos Palm and Mount Hua’s beginner Breathing Technique to advance the fusion, and his creation was detected as an unnamed internal cultivation method.

• Ji Boying completed the initial circulation of his new Purple Mist Divine Skill, storing powerful Purple Mist True Qi in his Dantian and making the skill circulate passively.
• Ji Boying explained that the passive skill could automatically defend him against surprise attacks, though he still intended to incorporate the Primordial Chaos Technique’s union of movement and stillness.
• Ji Boying continued developing the method so Mount Hua Sect disciples could build internal energy while practicing external martial arts.
• Lin Pingzhi watched Ji Boying slowly practice palm techniques and caught glimpses of his movements, though he did not intend to learn them secretly.
• Ji Boying used the Primordial Chaos Palm and Mount Hua’s beginner Breathing Technique to fuse movement and internal cultivation into the new Purple Mist Divine Skill.
• The system detected Ji Boying’s self-created internal cultivation and labeled it 'Unnamed'.

Ji Boying created the Clear Capital Purple Star Technique and a weaker Primordial Chaos Breathing Technique for Mount Hua disciples. After Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze arrived at the escort agency with the other disciples, Lin Zhennan accepted a booklet from Yue Buqun, and Ji Boying's master and mistress secretly visited his room at night.

• Ji Boying fused his inner skills into the Clear Capital Purple Star Technique and began refining a weaker technique for Mount Hua disciples.
• Ji Boying completed the Primordial Chaos Breathing Technique, which improved on the sect's original Primordial Chaos Technique.
• Lin Zhennan sent word that Yue Buqun, Ning Zhongze, and the Mount Hua disciples had arrived at the escort agency.
• Yue Buqun examined Lin Zhennan's pulse, then the group shared a feast while Ning Zhongze checked Ji Boying for injuries.
• Lin Zhennan accepted a small booklet from Yue Buqun after the banquet and was overjoyed.
• Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze quietly visited Ji Boying's room after nightfall.

Ji Boying confirmed that he had defeated Zuo Lengchan and revealed that he had created the Azure Capital Purple Star Divine Skill, an internal art that surpassed the Purple Mist Divine Skill. Yue Buqun recognized its power and declared it the foundation of Mount Hua Sect’s future prosperity.

• Yue Buqun asked Ji Boying to confirm that the attacker he had defeated was Zuo Lengchan, and Ji Boying identified him as the leader of the four experts.
• Ning Zhongze praised Ji Boying for fulfilling Yue Buqun’s long-held wish and helping Mount Hua through the Fuwei Escort Agency’s cooperation.
• Ji Boying revealed that he had created the Azure Capital Purple Star Divine Skill by integrating the three internal arts he knew, and offered to teach it to Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze.
• Yue Buqun tested Ji Boying’s internal energy and sensed that it circulated freely through the Twelve Main Meridians with exceptional purity and depth.
• Yue Buqun compared their Purple Mist True Qi and found that Ji Boying’s cultivated energy surpassed his own, then explained the technique’s advantage to Ning Zhongze.
• Yue Buqun praised the new art as the foundation of Mount Hua Sect’s prosperity for ten thousand generations.

Ji Boying explained the advantages and limits of the Azure Capital Purple Star Divine Skill and convinced Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze to cultivate it. He began guiding their inner force through the Twelve Main Meridians, preparing to pass on the skill to Mount Hua’s leading disciples.

• Ji Boying described how the Azure Capital Purple Star Divine Skill was easier to cultivate than Shaolin’s Muscle Tendon Change and produced exceptionally pure Purple Mist True Qi.
• Yue Buqun concluded that the new skill would help Mount Hua surpass Shaolin, while Ji Boying clarified that it could not match the highest realms of the Muscle Tendon Change.
• Ji Boying persuaded Ning Zhongze and Yue Buqun to cultivate the skill, and Yue Buqun agreed that Linghu Chong and Yue Lingshan should learn it too.
• Ning Zhongze accepted Ji Boying’s plan after recognizing his superior talent and the benefit the skill could bring Mount Hua.
• Ji Boying sat behind Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze, poured his inner force into them, and guided their original inner force through the Twelve Main Meridians.

Ji Boying guided Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze in cultivating the Azure Capital Purple Star Divine Skill, refining their inner force and greatly increasing their strength. After they stabilized their new qi, Ning Zhongze went to fetch Linghu Chong and Yue Lingshan so Ji Boying could train them as well.

• Ji Boying guided Yue Buqun's and Ning Zhongze's inner force through the new circulation route and helped them form seeds of Purple Mist True Qi.
• Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze completed their practice and discovered their strength and speed had increased, with Yue Buqun estimating an initial gain of twenty to thirty percent.
• Ji Boying suggested teaching the skill to Linghu Chong and Yue Lingshan that night while he was still in good condition.
• Ning Zhongze fetched Linghu Chong and Yue Lingshan to join the training.

Ji Boying taught Linghu Chong and Yue Lingshan new inner cultivation, then shared improved techniques intended to strengthen the Mount Hua Sect. Yue Buqun planned for the sect to travel together to Liu Zhengfeng’s golden-basin hand-washing ceremony, where he expected Zuo Lengchan to make a move.

• Ji Boying helped Linghu Chong and Yue Lingshan transform their inner strength, and both were amazed by his technique and grateful to him.
• Linghu Chong resolved to help Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze restore Mount Hua and support Ji Boying, while keeping his promise not to reveal Grand Martial Uncle’s identity.
• Ji Boying showed the group his improved Primordial Chaos Technique and Pure Capital Purple Minor Divine Skill, and proposed developing Mount Hua Swordplay from the Primordial Chaos Palm.
• Ji Boying gave Yue Buqun and the others three martial arts manuals from the Qingcheng Sect, which Yue Buqun welcomed as additions to Mount Hua’s collection.
• Yue Buqun explained that the sect would attend Liu Zhengfeng’s golden-basin hand-washing ceremony together and planned to have the disciples learn the new inner technique before facing possible schemes by Zuo Lengchan.
• After daybreak, Yue Buqun met with Lin Zhennan while Ning Zhongze, Linghu Chong, and Yue Lingshan practiced, and Ji Boying taught Lu Dayou and the other disciples the Primordial Chaos Breathing Mental Method.

The Mount Hua disciples grew much stronger while staying at the Fuwei Escort Agency, revealing that the sect’s strength far exceeded Lin Zhennan’s expectations. After Yue Buqun asked Linghu Chong to show his full skill, Linghu Chong unveiled Feng Qingyang’s swordplay, and Yue Buqun met it with his newly strengthened inner power.

• The Mount Hua disciples practiced at the Fuwei Escort Agency, and several who had once fought the escorts evenly soon overwhelmed them.
• Lin Zhennan realized that Mount Hua’s overall strength surpassed the Qingcheng Sect’s as the escort fighters saw how quickly the young disciples improved.
• Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze repeatedly sparred while converting their inner strength into the new Purple Mist True Qi, and Linghu Chong occasionally joined them.
• Linghu Chong’s swordsmanship and control of inner strength impressed Yue Buqun and Ning Zhongze, who gradually suspected he was concealing a deeper skill.
• Yue Buqun asked Linghu Chong to fight at full strength, and Linghu Chong unleashed the swordplay he had learned from Feng Qingyang.
• Yue Buqun used his enhanced inner strength to withstand Linghu Chong’s attacks and exploit his greater speed and power.

Ji Boying helped Mount Hua’s disciples improve their cultivation by adapting the Primordial Chaos Palm to Mount Hua Swordplay, then prepared to travel with Yue Buqun as danger surrounding the Bixie Sword Manual grew. Yue Buqun decided the group would travel openly while Ji Boying stayed hidden, leaving them to set out for Mount Heng under threat from Zuo Lengchan.

• Ji Boying adapted the Primordial Chaos Palm to Mount Hua Introductory Swordplay, and Linghu Chong eagerly practiced the combined method to build his swordplay and internal energy together.
• Ji Boying reflected on his own progress in Mount Hua sword arts and planned to fuse the sect’s varied techniques into a unified style.
• Ji Boying asked Yue Buqun how they would travel as the Fuwei Escort Agency prepared to leave for Mount Heng.
• Yue Buqun decided that he and the others would travel openly while Ji Boying remained hidden to deter Zuo Lengchan and avoid being used as bait.
• Yue Buqun warned Ji Boying to put his own survival first if danger arose on the road.

Ji Boying found three Hengshan nuns searching for their missing junior sister Yilin and led them into the forest, suspecting Tian Boguang might have taken her. They reached a stream and found Yilin’s footprints, but had not yet found her.

• Yue Buqun politely turned away martial artists who wanted to travel with the Mount Hua party, wary of Zuo Lengchan’s schemes.
• Yue Buqun’s group arrived safely at Return Goose Inn, where Linghu Chong admired his master’s social skill.
• Ji Boying heard three nuns calling for Yilin in the forest near Hengyang and learned that she had become separated from them.
• Ji Boying warned the nuns about Tian Boguang and led Yihe and the others to search for Yilin.
• Ji Boying found signs of a fall on the mountain path, followed the sound of a stream, and reached the water with the nuns.
• One of the nuns spotted Yilin’s small footprints in the trampled moss beside the stream.

Ji Boying discovered that Tian Boguang had abducted Yilin and led the three Hengshan Sect nuns to his cave. He lured Tian Boguang outside, where the bandit spotted the group and mistook Ji Boying for a pretty boy who had already claimed the nuns.

• Ji Boying identified faint footprints left by a Lightness Skill expert and reassured the anxious nuns that he would rescue Yilin from Tian Boguang.
• Yihe noticed that Ji Boying had left no trace on the moss, revealing that his Lightness Skill surpassed Tian Boguang's.
• Ji Boying found a cave and had one of the junior nuns call out to Yilin while insulting Tian Boguang.
• Tian Boguang emerged from the cave, delighted by the nuns' voices, while Yilin called to her senior sisters from inside.
• Tian Boguang saw the three nuns gathered around Ji Boying and angrily assumed the man had gotten to them first.

Ji Boying crippled Tian Boguang with hidden weapons and stopped him from drawing his blade, leaving the outlaw helpless before the three Hengshan nuns. When Tian Boguang insisted he could endure anything, Ji Boying pressed down on him until he screamed in pain.

• Yihe and the junior nuns confronted Tian Boguang and demanded that he release their captive junior sister.
• Tian Boguang leapt toward Ji Boying, but Ji struck both of his knees with Bone-Penetrating Nails, sending him crashing to the ground.
• Ji Boying explained that Tian Boguang had made himself an easy target, and the nuns praised his skill as they examined the wounds.
• Tian Boguang drew his blade, but Ji pinned his sword hand beneath his foot before the nuns could pull him away.
• Tian Boguang dared Ji to kill or torture him without making him flinch, so Ji ground down on him until he cried out in pain.

Ji Boying tortured Tian Boguang for preying on helpless women, then left him crippled and doomed to die while Yilin and the other nuns watched. The group departed after Yilin thanked Ji Boying for saving her life.

• Ji Boying crushed Tian Boguang’s right hand and slowly shattered his limbs while keeping him conscious with inner force.
• Yilin emerged from the cave and asked Ji Boying to give Tian Boguang a swift death, but he refused and explained why he wanted the criminal to suffer.
• Ji Boying temporarily numbed Tian Boguang’s pain, then crushed his fifth limb and restored his agonizing sensations.
• Ji Boying left Tian Boguang alive but beyond recovery, explaining that beasts or his hidden internal injuries would kill him within hours.
• Yilin thanked Ji Boying for saving her life as he prepared to leave with the nuns.

Ji Boying escorted four Hengshan nuns into Hengyang City while searching for Abbess Dingyi, and his presence drew the attention of the Mount Tai Sect disciples. After Chi Baicheng mistakenly challenged him, Daoist Tiansong recognized Ji Boying’s Mount Hua sword and cleared up the misunderstanding, just as a woman arrived asking for Yilin.

• Ji Boying led Yilin and the other Hengshan nuns into Hengyang City, where his commanding gaze silenced the martial artists who were leering at them.
• Chi Baicheng and the Mount Tai Disciples surrounded the group, believing Ji Boying might have taken the nuns hostage.
• Daoist Tiansong struck Chi Baicheng for failing to recognize Ji Boying’s Mount Hua sword.
• Chi Baicheng apologized and explained that the Mount Tai Sect had joined the search after hearing that Yilin had gone missing.
• Daoist Tiansong and Chi Baicheng wondered whether Ji Boying was the unusually powerful young man they had heard about.
• A woman arrived and urgently asked where Yilin was.

Yilin reunited with Abbess Dingyi, and Ji Boying joined the Five Great Mountains Sword Sects at the Return Goose Inn. After learning he had killed Tian Boguang, the Mount Tai Disciples publicly toasted Ji Boying for his righteous deed, drawing the attention of martial artists nearby.

• Yilin and the other women greeted Abbess Dingyi, who mistakenly thought Yilin had been bullied before others explained what had happened.
• Abbess Dingyi and the Mount Tai Sect members headed to the Return Goose Inn, where Daoist Tiansong praised the Mount Hua Sect for turning out in force.
• Ji Boying heard Qu Yang quietly marvel at his martial skill and spotted Qu Yang and his granddaughter in a corner.
• Yilin explained that Ji Boying had killed Tian Boguang, and the martial uncles praised him while Mount Tai Disciples learned who he was.
• Chi Baicheng led dozens of Mount Tai Disciples in raising a toast to Ji Boying for killing Tian Boguang and upholding the righteous path.