Chapter Summaries

Wang Yuan defeated and subdued the Green Scale Python guarding the Seven-Leaf Snake Saliva Grass, then heard fighting outside Qingteng Valley as he prepared to leave. Elsewhere, Third Sister completed an exchange of Cloud Province medicinal herbs for three Black Demon Scorpions with the Myriad Poisons Sect.

• Wang Yuan sensed the Green Scale Python nearby as he moved through the fog toward the Seven-Leaf Snake Saliva Grass.
• Third Sister exchanged medicinal herbs from Cloud Province for three juvenile Black Demon Scorpions with the Myriad Poisons Sect in a hidden valley.
• Wang Yuan killed the Green Scale Python with a barrage of punches, then used the Evil God's Eye to subdue it.
• Wang Yuan harvested the Seven-Leaf Snake Saliva Grass to prepare Bone Rot Heart Devouring Powder.
• Wang Yuan heard distant weapons, screams, and roars from outside Qingteng Valley and stopped to listen.

Wang Yuan arrived as the Bitao Sect ambushed Third Sister’s caravan to seize its Black Demon Scorpions. After Zhou Tong recognized Wang Yuan as the feared Poison Fiend, Wang Yuan declared that he would protect the caravan, and Zhou Tong prepared to fight.

• Zhou Tong and more than twenty Bitao Sect martial artists surrounded Third Sister’s caravan, killed many guards, and demanded the three Black Demon Scorpions.
• Third Sister assessed the odds and prepared to resist Zhou Tong and his men rather than surrender the shipment.
• Wang Yuan arrived, and Zhou Tong recognized him as the Kaoshan Sect’s Poison Fiend and became terrified.
• Wang Yuan said the caravan’s goods were his business because its members had fed him and let him ride with them.
• Zhou Tong realized he would have to settle the matter by force as Wang Yuan eyed the Black Demon Scorpions.

Wang Yuan annihilated the Bitao Sect force that had attacked the Myriad Poisons Sect convoy, then claimed and tamed one of the Black Demon Scorpions. He left Third Sister and her surviving guards to flee while he headed deeper into Qingteng Valley to deal with the wounded Green Scale Python.

• Zhou Tong ordered the Bitao Sect disciples to attack Wang Yuan with the Bitao Raging Waves Formation, but Wang Yuan broke through their assault and shattered Zhou Tong's arm with one punch.
• Wang Yuan defeated the five mid-stage Hua Jin disciples and routed the remaining Bitao Sect members, then killed the gravely wounded Zhou Tong.
• Third Sister thanked Wang Yuan, and he asked for one of the convoy's three Black Demon Scorpions in exchange for saving them.
• Wang Yuan subdued the Black Demon Scorpion with his spiritual force and placed it in a wooden box.
• Third Sister warned Wang Yuan that someone would investigate the missing Bitao Sect members and departed with her surviving guards to report the events to the Myriad Poison Sect.
• Wang Yuan went deeper into Qingteng Valley to find the injured Green Scale Python.

Wang Yuan gathered deadly poisons in Qingteng Valley and prepared to cultivate the Myriad Poisons Body Devouring Great Method. He began the perilous body-tempering process, whose failure would destroy his body and soul.

• Wang Yuan entered Qingteng Valley with the tamed juvenile Black Demon Scorpion and reunited with the recovering Green Scale Python.
• Wang Yuan explained that he intended to forge the Myriad Poisons Body, and the Green Scale Python led him deeper into the valley.
• Wang Yuan and the Green Scale Python collected the valley's rare poisonous herbs and fruits.
• One day later, Wang Yuan arranged the poison materials, the Black Demon Scorpion, and the Green Scale Python's venom around himself at the Blue Stone platform.
• Wang Yuan recalled the Myriad Poisons True Scripture and resolved to use his body as a cauldron to refine the hundred poisons.

Wang Yuan completed the Myriad-Poison-Immunity Body by refining a host of deadly poisons into his body. Meanwhile, Liu Canglan led Bitao Sect experts toward Qingteng Valley to find the killer of Zhou Tong and the sect’s missing disciples.

• Wang Yuan used poisonous grasses, flowers, vines, and fruits to temper his flesh, organs, bones, and marrow.
• Wang Yuan absorbed a Green Scale Python’s century-old venom and the juvenile Black Demon Scorpion’s origin poison, completing the Myriad-Poison-Immunity Body.
• Liu Canglan rode toward Qingteng Valley with four Bitao Sect core disciples after Zhou Tong and twenty-three disciples disappeared.
• Liu Canglan vowed to find and kill whoever had slaughtered the Bitao Sect elder and disciples.

After perfecting his Myriad-Poison-Immunity Body and reaching Peak Hua Jin, Wang Yuan emerged from seclusion in Qingteng Valley. When Liu Canglan and Bitao Sect disciples arrived searching for the killers of their party, Wang Yuan swiftly incapacitated four disciples, prompting Liu Canglan to suspect he was involved in the massacre.

• Wang Yuan emerged from a night of tempering himself with poisons, having perfected his poison body and advanced to Peak Hua Jin.
• Liu Canglan entered Qingteng Valley with four Bitao Sect Core Disciples and found Wang Yuan beside the Green Scale Python.
• Liu Canglan mistook Wang Yuan for a rogue poison cultivator and ordered his disciples to capture him.
• Wang Yuan struck the four disciples with poison-laden palms, leaving them severely injured and unable to fight.
• Liu Canglan recognized Wang Yuan's extraordinary strength and accused him of being connected to the destruction of the Bitao Sect party.

Wang Yuan admitted that he had killed Zhou Tong and the other Bitao Sect fighters, prompting Liu Canglan to attack him with the Myriad Waves Rise Palm. Wang Yuan endured the Viscera Refining Realm strike with his physical body, leaving Liu Canglan and his poisoned disciples stunned.

• Wang Yuan told Liu Canglan that Zhou Tong's group had all been killed.
• Liu Canglan guessed that Wang Yuan was a Holy Son of the Myriad Poisons Sect and vowed to cripple him and settle Bitao Sect's blood debt.
• Liu Canglan attacked Wang Yuan with the full force of Bitao Sect's Myriad Waves Rise Palm.
• Wang Yuan stood firm and blocked the strike with his body, though the force made his blood and qi churn and pressed him backward.
• The poisoned Bitao Sect disciples and Liu Canglan were shocked that Wang Yuan had withstood a Viscera Refining Realm attack.

Wang Yuan endured Liu Canglan’s relentless Organ Tempering attacks, but penetrating palm force finally injured his insides. Liu Canglan then discovered that Wang Yuan had secretly poisoned him through their clashes, leaving the battle at a turning point.

• Liu Canglan unleashed more than a dozen full-force Bitao Layered Waves Palm strikes, but Wang Yuan’s body withstood them without visible injury.
• Liu Canglan changed tactics and drove condensed penetrating force into Wang Yuan, causing his first internal injury.
• Wang Yuan’s concealed Myriad-Poison baleful force seeped into Liu Canglan through their close-range exchanges.
• Liu Canglan’s true qi grew sluggish as the poison spread through his meridians, and he realized Wang Yuan had poisoned him.

Wang Yuan poisoned and defeated Liu Canglan in Qingteng Valley, then left with the Green Scale Python and his gathered materials. Liu Canglan, too weakened to pursue him, ordered the Bitao Sect to investigate Wang Yuan and vowed revenge.

• Liu Canglan realized Wang Yuan had poisoned him during their close-range fight, and his attempts to expel the toxin made it spread faster.
• Wang Yuan explained that he had used his Ten Thousand Poison Body to erode Liu Canglan while enduring his attacks, and judged that neither fighter could kill the other.
• Wang Yuan collected his poisonous materials and spirit medicines, secured the juvenile Black Demon Scorpion, and left Qingteng Valley with the Green Scale Python.
• Liu Canglan refused to chase Wang Yuan because he feared dying, and a disciple's suggestion to attack triggered him to spit out poisonous blood.
• Liu Canglan ordered the Bitao Sect to investigate Wang Yuan's identity and vowed to return with sect experts to take revenge.

After poisoning Liu Canglan and reaching the peak of Transformation Force, Wang Yuan set out for his sect to break through into Bone Forging. An impossibly powerful old monk appeared on the road, froze Wang Yuan in place, and asked him to stay.

• Wang Yuan recovered from his injuries with a leaf of Nine-Leaf Green Lotus and resolved to return to the sect to cultivate in seclusion.
• Wang Yuan left Qingteng Valley with the Green Scale Python and the Black Demon Scorpion, planning to make a final push into Bone Forging before the Yunzhou Martial Gathering.
• A gaunt old monk appeared on the wilderness road, and his presence overwhelmed Wang Yuan and his companions.
• Wang Yuan tried to flee, but the monk opened his eyes and immobilized him, then calmly asked him to stay.

Wang Yuan encountered the formidable Ji Mie Arhat, who praised his natural physical foundation and bestowed him the Dragon Elephant Vajra Prajna Divine Art and an Arhat Foundation-Stabilizing Pill. Ji Mie revealed that he was an Arhat of the Temple of Boundless Beings and invited Wang Yuan to seek him out after mastering the art.

• Wang Yuan tried to leave the ancient road without revealing his Kaoshan Sect identity, but Ji Mie stopped him and assured him he meant no harm.
• Ji Mie recognized Wang Yuan’s exceptional Dragon-Elephant physique and offered him the Dragon Elephant Vajra Prajna Divine Art.
• Wang Yuan accepted the scripture and felt its Vajra power suppress the Myriad Poisons fiendish aura within him.
• Ji Mie gave Wang Yuan an Arhat Foundation-Stabilizing Pill to support his cultivation and protect his blood and qi.
• Ji Mie identified himself as an Arhat of the Temple of Boundless Beings in Nether Province and invited Wang Yuan to find him once he reached Major Accomplishment.

After Ji Mie Arhat left, Wang Yuan suspected the Grandmaster planned to possess his body and hurried back to the Kaoshan Sect to investigate. Ji Mie Arhat returned with a young monk, dismissed the suspicion, and faced questions about why he had chosen Wang Yuan for such gifts.

• Ji Mie Arhat vanished after telling Wang Yuan to take care, and Wang Yuan realized the monk was a Yin-Yang Grandmaster who had spared him.
• Wang Yuan decided to return to the Kaoshan Sect and ask Situ Lie and Elder Mu about Ji Mie Arhat and the Temple of Boundless Beings.
• Wang Yuan suspected the aging-looking monk intended to use him as a vessel for possession and rebirth, then set off for the Kaoshan Sect with the Green Scale Python and the Black Demon Scorpion's wooden box.
• After Wang Yuan left, Ji Mie Arhat reappeared beside a respectful white-robed monk and silently heard Wang Yuan's suspicions.
• Ji Mie Arhat dismissed the possession theory, explaining that Buddhist reincarnation belonged only to saints above the Grand Grandmaster Realm.
• The white-robed monk asked Ji Mie Arhat why he had personally chosen Wang Yuan and given him the Dragon-Elephant Method and an Arhat Pill.

Ji Mie Arhat explained that he planned to cultivate Wang Yuan into a Yin-Yang Grandmaster to counter the Imperial Court’s impending control of Cloud Province and help protect the Temple of Boundless Beings. Wang Yuan reached Cloudbeam City, mistakenly entered Listening Rain Pavilion, and bathed and changed there.

• Ji Mie Arhat told his attendant that Wang Yuan’s potential made him Cloud Province’s best hope against the Imperial Court’s Weapon Master and the Temple’s north-south encirclement.
• Ji Mie Arhat explained that the Dragon Elephant Vajra Prajna Divine Art would tie Wang Yuan to Buddhist karma and eventually lead him to seek the Temple’s help breaking through to Yin-Yang Grandmaster.
• Wang Yuan sent the Green Scale Python to hide outside the city, stored the Black Demon Scorpion, and entered Cloudbeam City alone.
• Wang Yuan mistakenly walked into Listening Rain Pavilion, a pleasure house run by Tingyu Tower, while looking for somewhere to rest.
• Wang Yuan paid the steward for a private room, bathed, and changed into clean clothes.

Wang Yuan stayed at Listening Rain Pavilion to observe Luo Qingyi, his opponent at the Yunzhou Martial Gathering, and assess her strength. Luo Qingyi and the Dawn Glow Sect’s saintess arrived, leaving the hall awestruck as the story ended with the two beauties standing together.

• Wang Yuan learned that Luo Qingyi and other sect saintesses were visiting Listening Rain Pavilion and decided to stay and observe them.
• Wang Yuan considered the Yunzhou Martial Gathering and resolved to gauge Luo Qingyi’s abilities before facing her.
• Luo Qingyi entered the pavilion, and Wang Yuan assessed her as a formidable Bone Forging Late Stage opponent.
• The Dawn Glow Sect’s saintess arrived, and the guests marveled at the two women’s contrasting beauty.

At Listening Rain Pavilion, Wang Yuan resisted Su Wanmei’s Red Dust Enchanting Heart Art and challenged Luo Qingyi to a spar, claiming his status as Kaoshan Sect’s True Disciple made up for their cultivation gap. Luo Qingyi faced his provocation as Su Wanmei watched in shock and amusement.

• Su Wanmei used the Red Dust Enchanting Heart Art to bewitch the guests at Listening Rain Pavilion, but Luo Qingyi and Wang Yuan remained unaffected.
• Su Wanmei approached and seduced Wang Yuan at close range, but the Evil God's Eye dispelled her charm and he brushed her hand away.
• Wang Yuan addressed Luo Qingyi, criticized her Bone Forging Late Stage cultivation, and identified himself as Kaoshan Sect’s True Disciple.
• Luo Qingyi questioned Wang Yuan’s arrogance because he was only at Peak Hua Jin.
• Wang Yuan challenged Luo Qingyi to spar and said he would let her leave safely if he lost.

Wang Yuan broke free of Su Wanmei’s seduction art and challenged Luo Qingyi despite their vast cultivation gap. He forced Luo Qingyi back with a single palm, leaving the guests stunned as their duel continued.

• Wang Yuan dispersed the seduction art with his Killing Intent, and the guests regained their senses.
• The guests saw that Wang Yuan had resisted Su Wanmei’s close-range seduction and thrown her hand aside.
• Wang Yuan challenged Luo Qingyi, and she accepted, warning him to bear the consequences.
• Luo Qingyi attacked with Tingyu Tower’s Azure-Mist Falling-Snow Palm.
• Wang Yuan met Luo Qingyi’s palm head-on and forced her back three steps, shocking everyone in Listening Rain Pavilion.

Wang Yuan defeated Luo Qingyi in Listening Rain Pavilion, revealing that his Peak Hua Jin cultivation and physical strength could overwhelm a Bone Forging Late Stage expert. Luo Qingyi accepted her defeat, while Su Wanmei and the hall's guests realized Wang Yuan might be the Yunzhou Martial Gathering's most terrifying dark horse.

• Wang Yuan told Luo Qingyi that his cultivation was truly Peak Hua Jin and dismissed her Bone Forging strength as too weak.
• Luo Qingyi unleashed Tingyu Tower's Thousandfold Azure-Mist Art, but her palm strikes could not injure Wang Yuan.
• Wang Yuan struck Luo Qingyi with an Iron Mountain Shoulder-Check, sending her staggering into a pillar.
• Luo Qingyi admitted defeat, stunning the guests and shocking Su Wanmei.
• Wang Yuan asked whether Luo Qingyi still thought him unworthy of sparring, and she recognized him as a possible dark horse at the Yunzhou Martial Gathering.

Wang Yuan defeated Luo Qingyi in a spar at Listening Rain Pavilion, shocking the guests and revealing himself as Poison Fiend Wang Yuan of Kaoshan Sect. Su Wanmei offered him friendship and recruitment, while Luo Qingyi conceded defeat and vowed to challenge him again at the Yunzhou Martial Gathering in one month.

• The guests recognized Wang Yuan as Poison Fiend, though his handsome appearance and composed bearing clashed with the rumors about him.
• Su Wanmei praised Wang Yuan's strength and invited him to associate with Dawn Glow Sect, but he politely declined to pursue her offer.
• Luo Qingyi acknowledged that Wang Yuan had defeated her and promised to challenge him again at the Yunzhou Martial Gathering.
• The guests concluded that Wang Yuan had overturned the standing of Cloud Province's younger generation, unaware that he had not revealed his full strength.

Wang Yuan returned to Kaoshan Sect after a frantic journey, hoping Sect Master Situ Lie and Elder Mu could explain Ji Mie Arhat’s gifts and hidden plans. He reunited with Tie Zhan and Luo Qingxuan, while the Yunzhou Martial Gathering loomed a month away.

• Wang Yuan left Listening Rain Pavilion, dismissing the attention after his spar with Su Wanmei and Luo Qingyi so he could investigate Ji Mie Arhat’s motives.
• Su Wanmei looked forward to the Yunzhou Martial Gathering, while Luo Qingyi vowed to avenge her defeat at the arena in one month.
• Wang Yuan rode day and night for two days and returned to Kaoshan Sect, where the gate disciples told him Sect Master Situ Lie and Elder Mu were present.
• Wang Yuan entered the sect and encountered Tie Zhan and Luo Qingxuan, who welcomed him and discussed their cultivation and the upcoming martial gathering.

Wang Yuan told Situ Lie and Elder Mu about Ji Mie Arhat’s gifts and his suspicions of a hidden scheme. Situ Lie warned him that a Buddhist Grandmaster had made him a chess piece and drawn him into the game.

• Luo Qingxuan said Kaoshan Sect needed Wang Yuan’s strength to secure resources at the Yunzhou Martial Gathering, and Wang Yuan promised not to let the sect down.
• Wang Yuan left Tie Zhan and Luo Qingxuan and went to the main hall to report the danger he had uncovered.
• Wang Yuan recounted meeting Ji Mie Arhat, receiving a sacred pill and divine art, and his suspicions that the monk intended to possess him.
• Wang Yuan also told Situ Lie and Elder Mu about his visit to Listening Rain Pavilion, where he defeated Luo Qingyi and drew Su Wanmei’s interest.
• Situ Lie warned Wang Yuan that a Buddhist Grandmaster had used him as a chess piece and that he had entered the game.