Chapter Summaries

At the Mount Hua Martial Arts Tournament, Iron Bone Sect’s disciples overwhelmed Shanggan Sect’s fighters, and Ye Xingchen’s match with ranked genius Jiang Sensi revived his ambition to claim first place in the Gathering of Heroes Ranking. Ye Xingchen shattered Jiang Sensi’s attacks and unleashed a barrage that left the fight unresolved as explosions filled the platform.

• Xiao Ziji and Li Qingyang defeated Shanggan Sect disciples in a series of friendly matches, leaving all twelve of Shanggan Sect’s fighters without a win.
• Jiang Sensi, a Ninth-grade Martial Master ranked eighty-ninth in the Human-tier of the Gathering of Heroes Ranking, stepped forward to fight.
• Jun Changxiao learned about the Gathering of Heroes Ranking and asked whether Iron Bone Sect could enter the Battle of Heroes Ranking.
• Ye Xingchen recalled his past-life regret of never reaching first place in the Heaven-tier and vowed to stand at the summit in this life.
• Ye Xingchen broke Jiang Sensi’s Spirit Power attacks with his fists, then struck with several My Slashes as explosions and dust spread across the platform.

Ye Xingchen defeated the ranked genius Jiang Sensi at Mount Hua, leaving the assembled sect leaders impressed by the Iron Bone Sect. Jun Changxiao departed with his disciples and Xi Jingxuan after declaring his ambition to become a Martial God.

• Ye Xingchen overwhelmed Jiang Sensi with My Slash and Explosive Fist, knocking him off the stone platform, and Jiang Sensi thanked him for showing mercy.
• Ye Xingchen challenged the other ranked martial cultivators, but no one came forward, and Jun Changxiao asked whether anyone else wished to spar before leading his disciples away.
• The sect leaders praised Jun Changxiao’s martial understanding and predicted that the Iron Bone Sect would become a renowned sect if he survived.
• Xi Jingxuan complimented Jun Changxiao’s martial insight, and he said he intended to surpass his rivals and achieve Martial Godhood.
• Jun Changxiao said he had to return to his sect, and Xi Jingxuan hoped they would have another chance to discuss martial arts.

Jun Changxiao spent his surplus Contribution Points on a Cloud-Stepping Boots blueprint, a powerful fist technique, and modified AK-47s. He tested an AK-47 with Xiao Ziji, whose uncontrolled recoil sent most of the bullets flying wide.

• Xi Jingxuan admitted to Li'er that being around Jun Changxiao made her feel relaxed, while denying that she had fallen for him.
• Jun Changxiao bought the Mid-grade Cloud-Stepping Boots Blueprint and started producing boots for the sect.
• Jun Changxiao bought Mountain Collapse Earth Split Fist and copied 5,000 manuals for the sect.
• Jun Changxiao refreshed the Initial Stage Mall and bought five modified AK-47s and five Universal Extended Magazines.
• Xiao Ziji fired the AK-47 at a stone wall, but its recoil sent most of his bullets off target.

Jun Changxiao handed out AK47s and martial arts resources to his disciples, including a Cold Light Sword for Lu Qianqian. As Ye Xingchen tried to comprehend his new fist technique, he saw Jun Changxiao take off his boot in public.

• Jun Changxiao demonstrated how to control an AK47 and gave one each to Xiao Ziji and Li Qingyang, who practiced firing.
• Jun Changxiao offered AK47s to Lu Qianqian and Ye Xingchen, but they preferred swords and fists, so he gave Ye Xingchen, Li Qingyang, and Xiao Ziji the Mountain Collapse Earth Split Fist.
• Jun Changxiao gave Lu Qianqian a Medium Grade Cold Gleam Sword, and she covered her Ice Bracelet before moving away from him.
• The Forging Pavilion notified Jun Changxiao that the Cloud-Stepping Boots had been forged.
• Ye Xingchen quickly grasped the basics of the Mountain Collapse Earth Split Fist, then saw Jun Changxiao take off his boot on the giant boulder.

Jun Changxiao tested the Cloud-Stepping Boots, which increased running and movement-technique speed, and gave pairs to his disciples. As the group entered a dangerous mountain forest, they ignored a wounded Martial Cultivator who begged them for help.

• Jun Changxiao tested the Cloud-Stepping Boots and found they increased his speed and jumping ability.
• Ye Xingchen comprehended the Mountain Collapse Earth Split Fist and greatly increased his striking strength.
• Jun Changxiao rewarded Li Qingyang, Xiao Ziji, Lu Qianqian, and Ye Xingchen with Cloud-Stepping Boots, and they tested the footwear.
• Ye Xingchen decided the unusual boots must have come from the Upper Realm.
• Jun Changxiao led the group into a gloomy mountain forest despite warnings that powerful Fierce Beasts might be there.
• A wounded Martial Cultivator stumbled out of the forest asking for help, but Jun Changxiao and his disciples rode past him.

Jun Changxiao agreed to protect a wounded Martial Cultivator in exchange for Spirit Stones, provoking the Demon Communication Hall pursuers surrounding his group. The standoff escalated into a clash of weapons as Jun Changxiao and his disciples raised their AK47s against the enemy’s Demon Blast Crossbows.

• Jun Changxiao initially refused to help the wounded Martial Cultivator, but agreed to save him when he offered one hundred Spirit Stones.
• Dozens of Men in Black emerged from the forest and attacked Jun Changxiao’s group with Hidden Weapons, which Li Qingyang and Ye Xingchen deflected while Xiao Ziji shielded the wounded man.
• The Man in Black leader identified his group as members of Demon Communication Hall and demanded that Jun Changxiao hand over their target.
• Jun Changxiao demanded one hundred Spirit Stones to let the pursuers take the wounded man, who then offered a thousand Spirit Stones for protection.
• The Man in Black leader threatened Jun Changxiao’s group with Demon Blast Crossbows, and Jun Changxiao, Li Qingyang, and Xiao Ziji drew their AK47s in response.

Jun Changxiao and his disciples used their AK47s to slaughter the Demon Communication Hall pursuers, then Jun killed their leader. After saving the wounded Martial Cultivator, Jun demanded the promised one thousand Spirit Stones, but the man claimed he had only one.

• The black-clad leader threatened Jun Changxiao and his disciples with more than forty Demon Blast Crossbows, but Jun ordered his group to fire first.
• Jun Changxiao, Li Qingyang, and Xiao Ziji shot down the pursuers, while their bullets detonated the attackers’ Demon Blast Arrows in a chain of explosions.
• Jun pressed his AK47 to the surviving black-clad leader’s forehead and killed him after the man begged to talk.
• Li Qingyang and Xiao Ziji looted the bodies as Jun told the wounded Martial Cultivator he had saved him and demanded one thousand Spirit Stones.
• The wounded Martial Cultivator said he had only one Spirit Stone, and Jun raised his AK47 at him for breaking their deal.

Jun Changxiao forced Ren Shan to reveal a Spirit Stone Mine hidden deep in Black Demon Forest and led his group there. After Ren Shan disappeared into the mine’s maze of tunnels, Jun Changxiao realized he had run away.

• Jun Changxiao threatened and stabbed Ren Shan until he confessed that he knew the location of a Spirit Stone Mine.
• Li Qingyang bandaged Ren Shan while Jun Changxiao burned the Demon Communication Hall’s corpses to hide the group’s tracks.
• Ren Shan explained how he and his companions found the mine, were pursued by the Demon Communication Hall, and lost three companions to a powerful Fierce Beast.
• Jun Changxiao’s group followed Ren Shan into Black Demon Forest, where Xiao Ziji killed a Fierce Beast and gathered its materials.
• Ren Shan led the group to a hollow and entered first, but vanished among the tunnels, prompting Li Qingyang to report that he had fled.

Jun Changxiao led his disciples through the maze-like tunnels, using the system to track Ren Shan by his lingering scent. After catching Ren Shan twice and letting him try to hide again, Jun Changxiao made him lead them to the Spirit Stone Mine, where they found crystalline ore embedded in the cave wall.

• Jun Changxiao chose a tunnel and continued through the maze despite Jiang Xie's advice to study the markings.
• The system tracked Ren Shan's scent, and Li Qingyang caught him at a passageway.
• Jun Changxiao let Ren Shan run and hide again, then Li Qingyang caught him a second time.
• Ren Shan surrendered and agreed to lead Jun Changxiao to the Spirit Stone Mine.
• Ren Shan brought the group to a spacious cave with crystalline ore embedded in its stone wall.

Jun Changxiao and his companions mined a hidden Natural Spirit Stone vein, then discovered the cave was a nest filled with Multi-Eyed Snakes. After they burned back a swarm from the tunnel, several Multi-Eyed Snake Kings and thousands more snakes surrounded them.

• Jun Changxiao ordered his disciples to mine the Natural Spirit Stones and had Lu Qianqian guard Ren Shan so he could not leave.
• Jun Changxiao sent Jiang Xie to contact the sect and summon Wolf Cavalry Hall to help with the mining.
• Lu Qianqian sensed movement in the tunnel, and more than twenty Multi-Eyed Snakes crawled into the cave.
• Jun Changxiao used the Fire Control Art and Exquisite Fire to burn the incoming snakes to ashes.
• Multi-Eyed Snakes broke through the cave walls, and several Multi-Eyed Snake Kings emerged with thousands of snakes behind them.

Jun Changxiao and his five disciples faced nearly a hundred thousand venomous Multi-Eyed Snakes inside the Spirit Stone Mine. With a time-limited quest forbidding damage to the mine, Jun Changxiao unsealed the Uncollectible Blade and began its Angry Slash of the Nine Heavens as the snakes attacked.

• Li Qingyang, Xiao Ziji, Jun Changxiao, and Ye Xingchen cut down waves of Multi-Eyed Snakes, but their poisonous blood corroded the ground.
• Ye Xingchen and Zhou Hong broke through the cave walls while fighting, revealing more snakes until the system counted 96,321 Multi-Eyed Snakes surrounding the group.
• A side quest required Jun Changxiao to eliminate every Multi-Eyed Snake within 120 seconds without damaging the Spirit Stone Mine.
• Jun Changxiao stopped Ye Xingchen from using the Crimson Firmament Blazing Slash and told his five disciples to move aside.
• Jun Changxiao summoned the Uncollectible Blade, crushed the Talisman of Seal Breaking, and unleashed the blade's sealed power as the snakes charged.

Jun Changxiao used the Uncollectible Blade to wipe out the Multi-Eyed Snake horde and complete his quests, earning a windfall of rewards. After recovering, he used them to break through to Ninth-rank Martial Grandmaster and improve his formation and sword aptitude while the disciples continued mining the Spirit Stones.

• Jun Changxiao unleashed the Uncollectible Blade and slaughtered nearly one hundred thousand Multi-Eyed Snakes, including the Multi-Eyed Snake King.
• Jun Changxiao completed the Side Quest, Elite Mission, and Time-Limited Quest, earning Contribution Points, a Talisman of Experience, and three Aptitude Fluids.
• After the blade left him weakened, Jun Changxiao ordered Li Qingyang and the others to collect Crystal Cores and resume mining once he recovered.
• Jun Changxiao crushed the Talisman of Experience and broke through to Eighth-rank and then Ninth-rank Martial Grandmaster.
• Jun Changxiao drank the Mid-grade Array Aptitude Fluid and Mid-grade Sword Dao Aptitude Fluid, gaining knowledge that could help him become a Dual Sword and Martial King after reaching Peak Martial Ancestor.

Jun Changxiao advanced through the Martial Grandmaster ranks with the system’s help, bought aptitude fluids and another AWM, then oversaw the mining of a Spirit Stone Mine. He recruited the lucky independent cultivator Ren Shan into the Iron Bone Unyielding Sect and left him astonished after healing his injuries with a pill.

• Jun Changxiao reviewed how cheats and Natural Spirit Stones had helped him reach Ninth-rank Martial Grandmaster, then bought five Aptitude Modification Fluids and another Divine Modification AWM.
• Jiang Xie brought Ren Shan and five hundred Wolf Cavalry Hall members to the mine, where the disciples rapidly excavated Spirit Stones.
• Jun Changxiao studied the Mid-grade Spirit Gathering Formation while Ren Shan asked to be released, and Jun Changxiao invited him to join the Iron Bone Unyielding Sect.
• Ren Shan recognized Jun Changxiao and accepted the invitation, becoming a sect disciple after Jun Changxiao registered him.
• When Ren Shan said his injuries prevented him from mining, Jun Changxiao gave him a Medium Grade Healing Pill, which quickly healed him.

After returning from the Black Demon Forest, Jun Changxiao strengthened the sect’s cultivation resources and watched its disciples advance rapidly. He appointed Xue Rengui as the first Hall Master of Wolf Cavalry Hall after seeing his skill training the mounted disciples.

• Jun Changxiao’s group mined more than thirty thousand Spirit Stones from the small mine and returned to the sect, where Hall Master Li reported that another twenty thousand-plus had been mined.
• Jun Changxiao upgraded the Spirit Gathering Formation to mid-grade, raising its Spiritual Energy density to one hundred times the outside level and dividing it into cultivation rooms.
• Jun Changxiao arranged for Old Man Wei to grow the herbs needed for Martial Master Pills, while disciples began cultivating in the improved formation.
• Xue Rengui trained five hundred Wolf Cavalry Hall members in coordinated formations, impressing Jun Changxiao and Li Luoqiu.
• Jun Changxiao appointed Xue Rengui the first Hall Master of Wolf Cavalry Hall and assigned his subordinates Hurricane Wolves.

Jun Changxiao expanded the sect’s intelligence network and used a Seed Cultivation Pool to accelerate medicinal herb growth. After recruiting more Fine Rain Hall operatives and expanding the Medicine Garden, he learned that all the disciples had reached Martial Apprentice and decided to recruit again.

• Jun Changxiao assigned Li Luoqiu one hundred new operatives to expand the Fine Rain Hall’s intelligence network into nearby counties, then joined her for shooting practice.
• Jun Changxiao bought a Seed Cultivation Pool, soaked Qi Gathering Pill herb seeds in it, and had Old Man Wei plant them.
• Old Man Wei found the seeds sprouted in one day and would mature quickly without losing spiritual energy, so Jun Changxiao placed the pool in the Medicine Hall for wider use.
• Jun Changxiao obtained more Martial Master Pill herb seeds from Ai Shangni, and Old Man Wei began planting them as the Medicine Garden expanded to five hundred acres.
• Three days later, Li Qingyang reported that every disciple except Yao Mengying had reached Martial Apprentice, and Jun Changxiao decided to open the Mountain Gate and recruit again.

Jun Changxiao learned that Zhenyang County was preparing to invade Qingyang County and resolved to help defend Qingyang City. He ordered Xue Rengui to expand the Wolf Cavalry Hall into a cavalry regiment and train it before the enemy arrived.

• Jun Changxiao considered recruiting disciples from other counties but worried that crossing county borders would provoke trouble.
• Xie Guang Kun told Jun Changxiao that Zhenyang County had sent a surrender ultimatum and was advancing with two hundred thousand troops led by the famous general Bai Ruihu.
• Xue Rengui assessed Qingyang City's forces as badly outmatched, while Xie Guang Kun vowed to defend the city to the death.
• Jun Changxiao refused to leave Qingyang City undefended, since the sect's disciples and their families called it home.
• Xue Rengui proposed expanding the Wolf Cavalry Hall, and Jun Changxiao assigned him five hundred disciples to train alongside the Hurricane Wolves.
• Xue Rengui promised to prepare the cavalry regiment within half a month.

Jun Changxiao prepared the Iron Bone Sect for the coming invasion by training a Wolf Cavalry, arming the Fine Rain Hall with sniper rifles, and raising the disciples’ Cultivation. After reaching Peak Martial Ancestor, he triggered a new Epic Task.

• Xue Rengui selected a thousand disciples for the Wolf Cavalry and began training them, impressed by their coordination.
• Jun Changxiao ordered ore purchases and equipment production, bought sniper rifles for the Fine Rain Hall, and sent its members to train for ambushes.
• The Iron Bone Sect disciples cultivated intensely for more than twenty days, reaching Ninth-grade Martial Apprentice on average, while Li Qingyang and the others reached Peak Martial Master.
• Jun Changxiao advanced from Subordinate Ninth Rank to Peak Martial Ancestor and triggered an Epic Task.

Jun Changxiao studied Epic Task Four, which required him to defend Qingyang City from Zhenyang County, and hoped the neighboring counties would delay the invasion while the Iron Bone Sect grew stronger. He tested the sect’s defenses and weapons, leaving Xue Rengui confident that they could defend the city if the disciples advanced to Martial Master level.

• Jun Changxiao learned that Epic Task Four required him to lead the Iron Bone Sect in defending Qingyang City, with no deadline specified.
• Zhong Yi led the Wolf Cavalry Regiment through a formation drill, and Xue Rengui explained how their One-Word Long Spear Formation could break enemy lines.
• Jun Changxiao tested a Demon Blast Arrow against Xiao Ziji’s Iron Shield, which withstood the blast with little damage.
• Li Luoqiu’s Fine Rain Hall members demonstrated their AWM Sniper Rifles’ accuracy, and Jun Changxiao pointed out they could ignite enemy Demon Blast Arrows before they were fired.
• Xue Rengui estimated the sect would have tenfold confidence in defending Qingyang City if its disciples reached Martial Master level, while Jun Changxiao hoped the neighboring counties would hold out for about twenty days.

After Zhenyang County’s army advanced toward Qingyang County, Jun Changxiao decided to strike first when Miao Kuai led ten thousand cavalry through Death Valley. Wolf Cavalry Hall ambushed the force, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Li Luoqiu reported that Huayang County’s governor had surrendered, while Heyang County resisted Zhenyang County’s army at Lingyang Pass.
• Li Luoqiu told Jun Changxiao that Miao Kuai had slaughtered Qingling City’s civilians and was leading ten thousand cavalry toward Qingyang County.
• Xue Rengui identified Miao Kuai’s route as a raid on Shouyang City, and Jun Changxiao ordered Wolf Cavalry Hall to eliminate the invaders.
• Miao Kuai’s cavalry stopped when they spotted a Hurricane Wolf, and Fine Rain Hall snipers killed three deputy generals with long-range shots.
• Zhong Yi led a thousand Wolf Cavalry Hall members into view and charged the Zhenyang County cavalry.

Jun Changxiao’s Wolf Cavalry Hall ambushed and annihilated Miao Kuai’s Zhenyang County cavalry force outside Death Valley. Miao Kuai was captured and brought before Xue Rengui, who confronted him over the slaughter of innocent civilians.

• Zhong Yi led a thousand Wolf Cavalry Hall members in a charge that threw the Zhenyang County cavalry into chaos.
• Xiao Ziji killed Miao Kuai’s deputy general with a shot, while the Wolf Cavalry Hall tore through the enemy’s defenses.
• Zhong Yi fought Miao Kuai and drove him into the forest, where Xiao Ziji shot him in the thigh and Zhong Yi captured him.
• The Wolf Cavalry Hall killed the ten thousand Zhenyang County cavalrymen after half an hour of fighting.
• Zhong Yi brought the wounded Miao Kuai before Jun Changxiao, and Xue Rengui confronted him about killing innocent civilians.