Chapter Summaries

Jun Changxiao brought Liu Wanshi to the Culinary Competition, where his students and the gathered spectators learned he was an instructor at Heavenly Decree Academy. As the contest began, Liu Wanshi chose to light her stove with wood instead of using a Fire Element Pill, insisting that cooking with borrowed flames had no soul.

• Huo Ling and the other Gathering of Heroes Hall students greeted Jun Changxiao as their teacher, revealing to the crowd that he instructed at Heavenly Decree Academy.
• Jun Changxiao encouraged Liu Wanshi before she joined more than three hundred contestants at the competition.
• The Shen Family began the first round, requiring contestants to prepare a signature dish within half an hour.
• Most contestants used Fire Element Pills to summon temporary flames, while Liu Wanshi kindled her fire with wood.
• Liu Wanshi said that food cooked with flames that did not belong to the cook had no soul.

Liu Wanshi competed in the Culinary Competition and cooked with careful skill while the Ouyang Family Direct Descendants initially appeared to dominate the field. Her dish’s aroma overwhelmed theirs and made her the most dazzling contestant as the first round neared its end.

• The contestants began cooking, and the aromas from the ten Ouyang Family Direct Descendants’ dishes drew the most attention.
• Liu Wanshi arranged her ingredients, prayed briefly, and began chopping and cooking at a measured pace.
• Jun Changxiao watched Liu Wanshi cook as the food aromas stirred the spectators’ imaginations.
• Liu Wanshi’s dish released an aroma that eclipsed the Ouyang Family Direct Descendants’ dishes and captivated the judges and spectators.
• The Ouyang Family Direct Descendants realized they could not adjust their nearly finished dishes to compete with Liu Wanshi’s fragrance.

Liu Wanshi’s home cooking earned a perfect score in the first round of the Culinary Competition, overshadowing the Ouyang Family and advancing her to the second round. As the next round began, she chose a live carp and prepared to make sweet and sour carp.

• The ten judges tasted Liu Wanshi’s home cooking, praised it as extraordinarily delicious, and awarded it a perfect score of one hundred.
• The judges gave most other contestants low scores, and one hundred contestants who scored above fifty points advanced to the second round.
• The Ouyang Family Direct Descendants who advanced fixed Liu Wanshi with serious looks as the competition moved into its next round.
• The Shen Family elder announced that contestants had half an hour to choose one of ten ingredients and make a specialty dish.
• Liu Wanshi chose a live carp, and Jun Changxiao recognized that she planned to make sweet and sour carp.

Liu Wanshi won the second round of the Culinary Competition with another perfect score and entered the final alongside nine Ouyang Family Direct Descendants. The final round began with the difficult Iron Nail Beef as its sole ingredient, and Liu Wanshi immediately started cutting it.

• Liu Wanshi prepared Sweet and Sour Carp, whose taste earned ten points from each of the judges.
• Liu Wanshi received a second perfect score, while the other nine final-round places went to Ouyang Family Direct Descendants.
• Liu Wanshi resolved to fight for the Iron Bone Unyielding Sect as she entered the final round.
• Li Qingyang, Xiao Ziji, Su Xiaomo, and Li Fei talked about Liu Wanshi competing in the Royal City.
• The Shen Family set Iron Nail Beef as the final round's only ingredient, and Liu Wanshi began cutting it before the Ouyang contestants had chosen how to cook it.

Liu Wanshi won the Culinary Competition championship after earning full marks for her Iron Nail Beef dishes, while the nine Ouyang Family Direct Descendants scored zero. During her acceptance speech, she thanked her father and the Iron Bone Unyielding Sect, prompting Huo Ling to decide to join the sect.

• Liu Wanshi prepared Four Joy Meatballs from Iron Nail Beef, and their aroma unsettled the Ouyang Family Direct Descendants as they cooked.
• The ten judges praised Liu Wanshi’s dish and awarded it full marks, giving her perfect scores in all three rounds.
• The judges gave all nine Ouyang Family Direct Descendants zero points, and Liu Wanshi won the championship.
• Liu Wanshi thanked her Sect Master, fellow disciples, father, and the Ouyang Family in her acceptance speech, moving Ouyang Jun to tears.
• Huo Ling decided to join the Iron Bone Unyielding Sect after hearing Liu Wanshi’s speech.

After Liu Wanshi won the Culinary Competition, her dishes fetched millions of taels at auction, and Jun Changxiao left the Royal City with her and Ouyang Jun. Huo Ling and thirty-nine students from Gathering of Heroes Hall then joined them on the road back to the Iron Bone Unyielding Sect.

• Liu Wanshi's Braised Lion's Head drew fierce bidding, and the three dishes sold for six million taels in total, half of which went to her.
• Jun Changxiao left the Royal City with Liu Wanshi and Ouyang Jun, saying he would let fate guide his recruitment plans.
• Huo Ling caught up with Jun Changxiao and asked to join the Iron Bone Unyielding Sect after applying for early graduation.
• Thirty-nine students from Gathering of Heroes Hall, including Chu Xiunan, gathered at the city gates and asked to join the sect.
• Jun Changxiao led the new recruits toward the Iron Bone Unyielding Sect while their families watched them depart.

Princess Honglian hesitated to leave the Royal City for the Iron Bone Sect, while thousands of Heavenly Decree Academy students chose early graduation to join it. The Certification General Hall then ranked the Iron Bone Unyielding Sect first in Southwest Yang Province with a Third-rate potential rating, shocking the region and the Demon Fiend Sect's Great Helmsman.

• Princess Honglian stayed behind to consider her duty to her father and the Royal City, while Situ Haoyun suggested she could study at the Iron Bone Sect first.
• Thousands of Heavenly Decree Academy students received permission for early graduation so they could join the Iron Bone Sect, alarming rival sects and city residents.
• The Certification General Hall ranked the Iron Bone Unyielding Sect first in Southwest Yang Province and rated its potential Third-rate.
• The Chu Family and other lineages celebrated their decision to send descendants to the Iron Bone Sect, while previously dissenting elders fell silent.
• The Demon Fiend Sect's Great Helmsman reacted with disbelief when a subordinate confirmed the Iron Bone Sect's Third-rate rating.

After the Iron Bone Sect was publicly ranked third in potential and Jun Changxiao gained fame across Southwest Yang Province, he traveled home with Liu Wanshi. In a city along the way, he discovered that someone was impersonating him at Flower Full Building and went inside to confront them.

• The God Slaying Hall's Helmsman and Zhenyang County Governor Zhuo Chaoqun reconsidered their plans after learning the Iron Bone Sect ranked third and Jun Changxiao was an Honorary Instructor at Heavenly Decree Academy.
• Jun Changxiao received 2,000 Contribution Points and Supreme Aptitude Modification Fluid for completing the hidden task Greatly Renowned.
• Jun Changxiao and Liu Wanshi continued their journey home while the Iron Bone Sect disciples missed Liu Wanshi's cooking.
• A Martial Cultivator announced that Jun Changxiao was recruiting disciples at Flower Full Building, drawing a crowd eager to see him.
• Jun Changxiao paid ten thousand taels to enter Flower Full Building and went to confront the person impersonating him.

Jun Changxiao discovered someone impersonating him and recruiting disciples in Guilin City for the Iron Bone Sect. He watched the impostor accept bribes while pretending to choose candidates by their birth dates and Eight Trigrams, and began considering the scam's usefulness.

• Jun Changxiao entered Flower Full Building, introduced himself as Li Bai, and sat cracking sunflower seeds among the city's prominent figures.
• The counterfeit Sect Leader Jun arrived in white robes, and Jun Changxiao stayed seated while the other guests welcomed him.
• The impostor claimed he would recruit only ten disciples in Guilin City, citing a divination, and said he would judge candidates by their birth dates and Eight Trigrams.
• Family Head Ren slipped banknotes beneath his descendants' birth-date slips, and the impostor accepted the money before approving two of them.
• Another family head offered his son's details with banknotes, and Jun Changxiao realized the impostor was taking bribes and considered copying his method.

Jun Changxiao challenged a white-robed impostor who was using the Iron Bone Sect's reputation to recruit disciples and swindle money from wealthy families. After the impostor produced a convincing aura within the room, Jun revealed that he was the real Iron Bone Sect Sect Master.

• The white-robed youth accepted banknotes and the Eight Trigrams of dozens of wealthy families' direct descendants, claiming they were fated to join the Iron Bone Sect.
• Jun Changxiao questioned how the youth could recruit dozens after claiming a baleful taboo limited him to ten disciples, but the youth explained it away with a long-winded Five Elements argument.
• Jun Changxiao offered one million taels to see the youth display his power, and the youth released a formidable Dual Sword and Martial King aura that only affected the room.
• Jun Changxiao challenged the youth to spar and told the Family Heads that the man might be a swindler, while noticing his aura could not be sensed outside.
• Jun Changxiao announced that he was the Iron Bone Sect's Sect Master and would come clean.

Jun Changxiao exposed a scheme in which a white-robed youth and accomplices impersonated him to swindle Guilin City's family heads, but they continued to mistake the real sect leader for the fraud. Princess Honglian arrived and recognized Jun Changxiao, while the family heads still accused him of impersonation and assault.

• Jun Changxiao unleashed his Martial King aura, but the family heads believed the white-robed impostor was the real Iron Bone Sect leader.
• Jun Changxiao punched Family Head Ren through a wall, then exposed another accomplice by tearing off his human-skin mask.
• Jun Changxiao identified the white-robed youth as the center of a scam involving accomplices and forged Eight Trigrams of birth.
• Princess Honglian arrived with the Red Flame Army, and Jun Changxiao bound the impostor when he tried to escape.
• Princess Honglian addressed Jun Changxiao, but a family head mistook him for the impostor and demanded that she punish him.

Jun Changxiao exposed a con artist impersonating him in Guilin City, then collected compensation from the duped family heads and took the swindler into his own custody. Princess Honglian promised a crackdown on impersonators but declined to join the Iron Bone Unyielding Sect for now, leaving Jun Changxiao to depart with Liu Wanshi.

• Princess Honglian identified Jun Changxiao as the real Sect Leader and confirmed that the youth in white had been impersonating him, shocking the family heads.
• Jun Changxiao unmasked the swindler and got the family heads to pay him three million taels for the Spiritual Energy he had expended.
• Princess Honglian ordered the swindler's accomplices arrested, while Jun Changxiao knocked the impersonator unconscious and claimed the right to punish him himself.
• Princess Honglian said she would issue a Red Decree against anyone impersonating Jun Changxiao throughout the Royal City's jurisdiction.
• Jun Changxiao asked Princess Honglian again to join his sect, but she said she needed her father's approval and had to manage the Royal City.
• Jun Changxiao left with Liu Wanshi, and Princess Honglian watched them go, admitting she wanted to join but had responsibilities in the Royal City.

Jun Changxiao returned to the Iron Bone Sect after exposing and punishing a fraud who had impersonated him. Liu Wanshi reunited with the disciples, and the new students arrived to find the sect’s harsh treatment of the impostor already underway.

• Jun Changxiao found the impostor’s money and record of more than two thousand scams, then beat him repeatedly during the journey back to the Iron Bone Sect.
• The Heavenly Decree Royal City issued a decree against people impersonating the Iron Bone Sect’s sect leader and punished impostors in its cells.
• Liu Wanshi returned with Jun Changxiao, and the disciples celebrated her cooking and Culinary Competition championship.
• Su Xiaomo and the other disciples surrounded the impostor, while Li Fei repeatedly kicked the Happy Football into his face.
• Li Qingyang told Jun Changxiao that the renovated Inner Court could hold twenty thousand people, and Jun assigned him to arrange for incoming students.
• Chu Xiunan, Huo Ling, and the other students arrived and watched Li Fei kicking the impostor, leaving them afraid they had entered a dangerous sect.

Jun Changxiao discovered that He Wudi had a Super God-grade Spirit Root and a hidden cultivation level higher than he showed. After He Wudi beat Chu Xiunan, Jun called him over, intending to learn the technique he used to conceal his cultivation.

• Li Qingyang arranged rooms and uniforms for the thirty-nine new disciples, while Jun Changxiao corrected Huo Ling on how to address him.
• Chu Xiunan went looking for a weak disciple to spar with, but Happy Football flew into him and smashed him into a wall.
• He Wudi told Chu Xiunan that he was a Closed-door Disciple, then beat him after Chu Xiunan laughed at him.
• Jun Changxiao used his Analysis Function and discovered that He Wudi had a Super God-grade Spirit Root and was a Ninth-grade Martial Master despite appearing to be a Sixth-grade Martial Master.
• Jun Changxiao considered learning He Wudi's cultivation-concealing technique, then called He Wudi over with a smile that made him uneasy.

Jun Changxiao obtained He Wudi’s Seclusion Technique and distributed it to the Iron Bone Sect’s disciples so they could hide their Cultivation. As the new disciples adapted to the sect’s harsh training, students from Heavenly Decree Academy arrived seeking to join.

• Jun Changxiao persuaded He Wudi to reveal the Seclusion Technique, then learned it and arranged for the disciples to receive copies.
• The disciples began cultivating the technique, which let them suppress their realms and conceal their true Cultivation.
• Su Xiaomo put Chu Xiunan, Huo Ling, and the other new disciples through punishing training, though Body Sculpting Pills had improved their strength.
• The new disciples recovered their enthusiasm after eating Liu Wanshi’s food, and Jun Changxiao told Li Luoqiu that building a happy sect was his lifelong wish.
• Li Qingyang reported that students from Heavenly Decree Academy had come to see Jun Changxiao and wanted to join the sect, so Jun Changxiao went to meet them.

Jun Changxiao accepted thousands of Heavenly Decree Academy graduates into the Iron Bone Sect and expanded its facilities and halls as the sect approached ten thousand members. When Jing Wugou arrived to challenge the disciples, he chose Ye Xingchen as his opponent.

• Jun Changxiao welcomed the early graduates, and the Iron Bone Sect's membership and Contribution Points rose as disciples enrolled.
• Jun Changxiao bought more Muscle Sculpting Rooms and Training Room facilities to accommodate the growing sect.
• Over five days, the sect's numbers rose to 9,002 as Jun Changxiao expanded the Medicine Hall, established the Procurement Hall, and let Xue Rengui and Li Luoqiu recruit more disciples.
• Jing Wugou arrived at the Iron Bone Sect to challenge its disciples, and Jun Changxiao let him choose an Inner disciple to fight.
• Jing Wugou refused to fight a girl and chose Ye Xingchen as his sparring opponent.

Jing Wugou challenged the Iron Bone Sect disciples and was defeated repeatedly, eventually losing heart. Jun Changxiao told him he lacked a renowned teacher’s guidance, and Jing Wugou wondered if he was urging him never to give up.

• Jing Wugou chose Ye Xingchen as his opponent, and Ye Xingchen defeated and brutally pinned him in one move.
• After recovering, Jing Wugou challenged Tian Qi, Long Ziyang, and other disciples, losing nineteen matches in succession.
• Jun Changxiao sent Outer Sect disciples to fight Jing Wugou, who continued to lose until his confidence faltered.
• Jing Wugou asked if he was truly weak, and Jun Changxiao said the Iron Bone Sect disciples were simply too strong.
• Jun Changxiao said Jing Wugou could surpass many others with proper guidance, and Jing Wugou asked if he meant that he should never give up.

Jing Wugou joined the Iron Bone Sect, and Little Dragon Dragon awakened after its second evolution. The Fire Dragon emerged as a speaking Spirit Beast with strength comparable to the Martial King level.

• Jing Wugou joined the Iron Bone Sect as disciple number 9003 after deciding Jun Changxiao's guidance could help him find his own path.
• Jun Changxiao led the disciples through their morning routine and wondered why the other Academy geniuses had not come to challenge him.
• Little Dragon Dragon awakened at night and sent towering Scorching Flames across the Training Ground until dawn.
• The disciples saw that Little Dragon Dragon had grown only slightly, but its roar revealed a powerful aura.
• Little Dragon Dragon told Jun Changxiao it had evolved for the second time, and Huo Ling identified it as a Spirit Beast capable of speaking human language.

After evolving and gaining speech, Fire Dragon revealed its powerful second Battle Form, a partial human transformation that made it eager to fight. It carried Jun Changxiao away to seek a stronger opponent, leaving the Iron Bone Sect disciples stunned by its ability to fly.

• Jun Changxiao asked Fire Dragon to demonstrate its second Battle Form, and Fire Dragon warned that using it would leave it weakened for a long time.
• Fire Dragon erupted in intense flames, forcing the disciples to retreat while Jun Changxiao contained the heat with a Spiritual Energy barrier.
• Fire Dragon emerged with a human head but a beastlike body and called the form Human Dragon Transformation.
• Fire Dragon rejected Jiang Xie and the Ning Brothers as opponents, then asked to challenge a Martial Emperor.
• When Jun Changxiao noted that Fire Dragon's form lasted only one shichen, Fire Dragon grabbed him and flew away, astonishing the disciples.

Jun Changxiao rode Little Dragon Dragon to Lingyuan Sect, where the Contract Beast’s flight and speed astonished everyone along the way. At Lingyuan Sect’s public lecture, a drunken blue-robed middle-aged man confronted Governor Zhuo Chaoqun, hinting at a tense history between them.

• Little Dragon Dragon revealed his flying Second Battle Form and carried Jun Changxiao through the sky at tremendous speed.
• Jun Changxiao learned from the system that Little Dragon Dragon’s strength had reached the Martial Emperor level.
• The fiery red streak passed over cities, shocking Martial Cultivators and commoners.
• A drunken blue-robed middle-aged man insulted visitors on the stairs to Lingyuan Sect, then fell asleep before reaching the lecture.
• Governor Zhuo Chaoqun welcomed the gathered Martial Cultivators, but the blue-robed man interrupted and mocked his lack of Cultivation progress.