Chapter Summaries

Wei Fan learned that Yang Jun had been released and was threatened by the Fierce Tiger Gang, then found Old Man Zhang murdered and his granddaughter abducted. As Wei Fan confronted Yang Jun in an alley, his vision cleared and a martial arts interface appeared, showing that slaying demons and evil spirits could yield power.

• Wei Fan accepted one boiled egg from Old Man Zhang and secretly left copper coins in the basket.
• Zhou Qi told Wei Fan that Captain Li had released Yang Jun, who had threatened to retaliate against him.
• Wei Fan and Zhou Qi found Old Man Zhang murdered, and witnesses said the killers had taken his granddaughter into an alley.
• Wei Fan rushed after the abductors despite Zhou Qi's warning, then confronted Yang Jun and two men holding the girl.
• Yang Jun taunted Wei Fan and struck the girl, while Wei Fan's vision cleared and a martial arts interface appeared.

Wei Fan killed Yang Jun and his two accomplices when they threatened Old Man Zhang’s granddaughter, then used the cultivation gained from their deaths to advance his Golden Bell Shield to the sixth layer. He was left with powerful true qi and a strengthened body, though his killing had put him at odds with the Fierce Tiger Gang.

• Wei Fan discovered that Yang Jun was marked as an evil target worth three years of cultivation, while Yang Jun demanded that he kneel and lick Old Man Zhang’s blood from a blade.
• Wei Fan took the blade and killed Yang Jun, then used his mastery-level Blood Fiend Saber Technique to kill Yang Ping and Yang Zhi and rescue Old Man Zhang’s granddaughter.
• Wei Fan declared that Yang Jun had been executed for murder and resisting arrest, and Zhou Qi agreed before running to summon help.
• Wei Fan sent Old Man Zhang’s granddaughter to find her cousin and gave her money, then collapsed from the blood qi consumed by his saber technique.
• Wei Fan gained four years of cultivation from the three killings and invested it all in the Golden Bell Shield, which advanced to the sixth layer and restored his blood qi.

Wei Fan killed Hu Jiu, a tiger demon, after Captain Li Shen sent him to a village as a trap. He discovered that Li Shen and the two runners had betrayed him, and confronted them while carrying the demon's severed head.

• Wei Fan tested his sixth-level Golden Bell Shield and continued patrolling with Zhou Qi, who had followed his instructions when reporting the earlier killings.
• Captain Li Shen ordered Wei Fan to investigate a disappearance at Five Mile Village with Wang Gui and Qiu Ping.
• Wang Gui and Qiu Ping led Wei Fan alone into a foul-smelling courtyard, where Hu Jiu revealed that he ate yamen runners and had been sent by Jiang Chuan.
• Wei Fan killed Hu Jiu with a golden saber strike, gained five years of cultivation, and searched the courtyard, finding human bones but no other demons.
• Wang Gui and Qiu Ping admitted that Li Shen had offered Wei Fan to Jiang Chuan, then fell silent when Wei Fan emerged carrying Hu Jiu's head.

Wei Fan killed Hu Jiu and the corrupt constables Wang Gui and Qiu Ping, then used his accumulated skill to advance the Golden Bell Shield to its Ninth Level. He left the village warned of danger and planned to spend his remaining skill improving the Blood Fiend Saber Technique.

• Wei Fan learned that Wang Gui and Qiu Ping had fed people to Hu Jiu and killed both constables after their sabers failed to pierce his Sixth Level Golden Bell Shield.
• Wei Fan disguised the deaths as a demon attack and left the constables’ bodies in the courtyard before returning toward the city.
• A group of elderly, sick, and disabled villagers knelt to thank Wei Fan, who warned them that the tiger demon might return.
• Wei Fan spent skill to advance the Golden Bell Shield from its Sixth Level to its Ninth Level, gaining Bronze Skin and Iron Bones and a powerful protective Golden Bell.
• Wei Fan decided to use his remaining four years of skill on the Blood Fiend Saber Technique.

Wei Fan returned to the yamen with Master Hu Jiu’s head after killing the Tiger Demon, and claimed Qiu Ping and Wang Gui had died fighting beside him. He arranged to meet Jiang Chuan over Yang Jun’s death and went to see the Squad Leader to claim merit for the demon’s head.

• Wei Fan perfected the Blood Fiend Saber Technique and tested its power with a slash that split the ground.
• Wei Fan carried Master Hu Jiu’s head through the city and stunned the constables at the yamen.
• Wei Fan told Li Shen that Qiu Ping and Wang Gui had died fighting the Tiger Demon and asked that they receive merit for their deaths.
• Wei Fan asked Li Shen to arrange a meeting with Jiang Chuan so he could apologize for killing Yang Jun, but refused to hand over the tiger head.
• Wei Fan told Hu Qing that Yang Jun’s family deserved an apology and left to find the Squad Leader.

After killing the Tiger Demon of Five Mile Village, Wei Fan chose new martial arts and perfected his lightness skill with his remaining cultivation. He followed Li Shen to confront Jiang Chuan, where he found himself surrounded and prepared to fight.

• Wei Fan told Luo Wen that Wang Gui and Qiu Ping had died alongside him while killing the Tiger Demon, and Luo Wen let him choose two martial arts manuals.
• Wei Fan chose Iron Body Skill and Flowing Cloud Chasing Wind Steps, then used all three years of cultivation to perfect Flowing Cloud Chasing Wind Steps.
• Li Shen took Wei Fan to meet Jiang Chuan, while Zhou Qi and Hu Qing worried that the meeting was a trap; Hu Qing ran after them to help.
• Wei Fan entered Jiang Chuan's courtyard and saw three vermilion coffins, while his panel identified Jiang Chuan as a True Qi Fourth Level branch leader who could yield ten years of cultivation.
• Li Shen shut the gate and blocked Wei Fan's retreat as Jiang Chuan ordered his men to capture him for the Tiger King; Wei Fan drew his saber and challenged them.

Wei Fan killed Jiang Chuan, Li Shen, and their men, then concealed his role from Hu Qing and Head Instructor Hu Qingyun. Hu Qingyun discovered the bodies and feared the deaths would provoke the Fierce Tiger Gang and the Tiger King.

• Jiang Chuan ordered his men to capture Wei Fan, but Wei Fan killed them all and split Jiang Chuan in two with his blade aura.
• Li Shen begged Wei Fan for mercy, but Wei Fan killed him and gained forty-six years of cultivation from the deaths.
• Hu Qing and Hu Qingyun met Wei Fan outside the courtyard, and Wei Fan claimed Jiang Chuan and Li Shen had killed each other.
• Hu Qingyun entered the courtyard and found Jiang Chuan, Li Shen, and the others dead, while Hu Qing insisted her explanation of their deaths was true.
• Hu Qingyun took Hu Qing to the yamen to summon people and have the bodies removed.

After Wei Fan killed Yang Jun, the proprietor of Ma's Restaurant thanked him with a lavish meal. At home, Wei Fan used thirteen years of stored cultivation to perfect Iron Body Skill, gaining ten thousand pounds of strength in one arm, and had thirty-three years of cultivation left.

• The waiter told Wei Fan that the proprietor was treating him because Yang Jun had harmed the proprietor's daughter, and Wei Fan ate the meal without paying.
• Wei Fan returned home, checked his martial arts panel, and decided to improve his uninitiated Iron Body Skill.
• Wei Fan endured the painful training as ten years of cultivation raised Iron Body Skill to the Eighth Level, leaving thirty-six years of cultivation.
• Wei Fan spent another three years of cultivation to reach the perfected Ninth Level of Iron Body Skill, gaining ten thousand pounds of strength in one arm.
• Wei Fan tested his newly hardened body and saber resistance, then chose not to spend his remaining thirty-three years of cultivation because he was mentally exhausted.

The East District Yamen debated whether to surrender Wei Fan after the Fierce Tiger Gang threatened a tiger demon attack, but Squad Leader Luo Wen refused and revealed that Wei Fan had been promoted to constable. Luo Wen told Wei Fan the gang leader had been eaten by the tiger demons, leaving the gang’s masters enraged over the Tiger King’s dead son.

• Wang Meng urged the East District runners to hand Wei Fan over, while Hu Qing opposed surrendering a constable who had killed a demon.
• Luo Wen declared that Wei Fan could not be handed over because the clerk had promoted him to constable, then ordered the runners to strengthen patrols and face any tiger demon entering the city.
• Wei Fan arrived and learned from Zhou Qi that he had become a constable and that he should be wary of Wang Meng.
• Luo Wen gave Wei Fan his new uniform and saber, congratulated him, and said he would not investigate Li Shen’s death.
• Luo Wen told Wei Fan that the Fierce Tiger Gang’s leader had been eaten alive by the tiger demons after the Tiger King’s young son was killed.

Wei Fan agreed to face the Tiger King over the death of his son and secured three martial arts manuals from Luo Wen before setting out. He left in a carriage driven by Wang Meng, whose collusion with the Tiger Demon Wei Fan already knew about.

• Luo Wen told Wei Fan that the Fierce Tiger Gang had threatened to send the Tiger Demon into the city unless Wei Fan was handed over, but he had refused.
• Wei Fan chose to meet the Tiger Demon himself and asked Luo Wen for the Demon-Exorcising Saber Technique; Luo Wen gave him access to three martial arts manuals instead.
• Wei Fan recorded the Heavenly Gang Blood Burning Saber, Glazed Treasure Body, and Dragon's Roar Sky Shattering Finger, then asked Luo Wen to have Wang Meng drive him to the Tiger King.
• Hu Qing pleaded with Wei Fan not to go, but he said he would persuade the Tiger King to accept his son's death.
• Wang Meng readily agreed to drive Wei Fan, while Wei Fan's panel showed that Wang Meng had harmed fellow officials and colluded with the Tiger Demon.

Luo Wen realized Wei Fan had likely been manipulating events and feared neither the Tiger Demons nor the Fierce Tiger Gang. In the carriage, Wei Fan advanced his saber art and Golden Bell Shield, ending with no cultivation remaining and a newly awakened Roaring Tiger Golden Bell Shield.

• Luo Wen watched Wei Fan's carriage depart and concluded Wei Fan had used the constable appointment as part of his plans, while remaining unafraid of the Tiger Demons.
• Wei Fan spent three years of cultivation to raise Heavenly Gang Blood Burning Saber to mastery and formed nearly tangible, scorching saber gang.
• Wei Fan spent ten years cultivating Golden Bell Shield, whose perfected Ninth Level transformed into the initiated Roaring Tiger Golden Bell Shield, a bell he could summon without True Qi.
• Wei Fan spent his remaining twenty years advancing Roaring Tiger Golden Bell Shield to minor accomplishment, making it indestructible, able to change size, and capable of emitting a fearsome tiger's roar.

Wei Fan confronted six Tiger Demons at the ruins of Five Mile Village after Wang Meng delivered him to them in exchange for a Human Pill. He killed Wang Meng and battled the Ninth Rank Tiger Demon with his Roaring Tiger Golden Bell Shield, leaving the fight poised to escalate as the demon unleashed a sonic attack.

• Wei Fan arrived at Five Mile Village and saw that the Tiger Demons had destroyed it, while six powerful demons waited for him.
• The largest Tiger Demon promised Wang Meng a Human Pill for delivering Wei Fan, and Wei Fan learned that Wang Meng and Li Shen had helped the demons for the pills.
• Wei Fan killed Wang Meng with one slash, then faced the largest Tiger Demon, which was an Initial Realm Ninth Rank demon worth thirty years of cultivation.
• The Tiger Demon pounced, but Wei Fan’s Roaring Tiger Golden Bell Shield struck it and broke its forelegs.
• The Tiger Demon blasted the Golden Bell with a sonic roar, but Wei Fan remained unharmed and prepared to return the attack with a tiger roar of his own.

Wei Fan used the Roaring Tiger Golden Bell Shield to cripple the Tiger Demons and kill six of them, then forced Tiger Six to take him to the Tiger King. He spent a hundred years of skill perfecting the shield, whose tiger soul terrified Tiger Six, and turned his attention to two uninitiated martial arts.

• Wei Fan's Roaring Tiger Golden Bell Shield overpowered the Tiger Demons, and he killed all but Tiger Six with his blade.
• Wei Fan spared the badly wounded Tiger Six, questioned him about the Tiger King, and ordered him to lead the way.
• Tiger Six carried Wei Fan toward the Tiger King while explaining that he had submitted to avoid being beaten and hoped Wei Fan would die.
• Wei Fan spent fifty years of skill raising the Roaring Tiger Golden Bell Shield to major accomplishment, then spent ten more to perfect it.
• The perfected shield's tiger soul frightened Tiger Six, and Wei Fan examined Dragon's Roar Sky Shattering Finger and Glazed Treasure Body as his next skills to enhance.

Wei Fan arrived at the Tiger King's estate after increasing his strength by mastering the Glazed Treasure Body. He killed Tiger Six, revealed that he had slain all the Tiger King's sons, and wounded the Tiger King with his mastery-level Heavenly Gang Blood Burning Saber.

• Wei Fan used ten years of cultivation to master the Glazed Treasure Body, raising his one-arm strength to fifteen thousand jin.
• Wei Fan and Tiger Six reached the Tiger King's estate, where Ning Xuan and Su Xuerong were fighting the Tiger King.
• Tiger Six tried to reach his father, but Wei Fan beheaded him before the Tiger King could intervene.
• Wei Fan told the Tiger King that he had killed all his sons, and the Tiger King declared he would sire more after killing Wei Fan.
• Wei Fan evaded the Tiger King's attack and struck back with his mastery-level Heavenly Gang Blood Burning Saber, cutting through the Tiger King's saber and badly burning his chest.

Wei Fan defeated and killed the Tiger King with his nearly unbreakable body and mastered Dragon's Roar Sky Shattering Finger. After Ning Xuan and Su Xuerong witnessed his victory, Wei Fan demanded to know who they were.

• The Tiger King regenerated from Wei Fan's saber wound and attacked him with demon power and a deadly tiger claw.
• The Tiger King's claws tore Wei Fan's clothes but only sparked against his skin, revealing the strength of Wei Fan's body-tempering arts.
• Wei Fan punched the Tiger King and tore away half his fist with Dragon's Roar Sky Shattering Finger, forcing the demon to reveal his true form.
• Wei Fan tore through the Tiger King's flesh and bones, ignored his pleas for mercy, and ripped off his skullcap, killing him.
• Wei Fan gained eighty years of cultivation, bringing his total to 146 years, while Ning Xuan and Su Xuerong marveled that he had killed a demon they could not defeat.
• Wei Fan asked Ning Xuan and Su Xuerong to reveal their identities.

Wei Fan learned that Ning Xuan and Su Xuerong were reserve candidates for the Demon Suppressing Division and discovered the value of the Tiger King's Demon Sac. After escorting the injured pair to an inn, he returned to the East District Yamen, where the runners had feared he was dead.

• Wei Fan questioned Ning Xuan and Su Xuerong, learned they came from Su City, and heard that they were on a Demon Suppressing Division assessment mission.
• Su Xuerong explained how candidates were recruited and promised to recommend Wei Fan to their guide, while Ning Xuan worsened his injuries after laughing at Wei Fan's age.
• Su Xuerong told Wei Fan about Demon Sacs, and he removed the Tiger King's jade-white Demon Sac from its abdomen.
• Wei Fan arranged a room for Ning Xuan and Su Xuerong at the Cloud Dream Inn, then took the Demon Sac home and headed to the yamen.
• The East District Yamen runners worried that the Tiger Demon had killed Wei Fan until he walked in, prompting Hu Qing to greet him with relief.

Wei Fan returned after killing the tiger demons and led the yamen runners to destroy the Fierce Tiger Gang. The gang’s members were arrested or killed, and Wei Fan executed Zhang Huaiyu and his subordinate when they challenged him.

• Wei Fan told the yamen runners that the tiger demons and Constable Wang had died, then stopped a runner from warning the Fierce Tiger Gang.
• Wei Fan gathered support from Hu Qing, Zhou Qi, and other yamen runners, while Luo Wen authorized the raid.
• Zhang Huaiyu learned the tiger demons had been killed and tried to gather valuables before the yamen runners stormed the gang’s headquarters.
• Zhang Huaiyu surrendered after learning the Tiger King was dead, but Wei Fan killed him and his subordinate.
• The yamen runners killed most of the Fierce Tiger Gang members, arresting only a dozen or so of the fifty or sixty at the headquarters.

After wiping out the Fierce Tiger Gang, Wei Fan discovered two body-tempering martial arts among Zhang Huaiyu’s belongings and perfected the Giant Bear Skill and Giant Bear Palm. The eastern district celebrated the gang’s fall, while a girl returning to her home found her uncle had seized it and was driving her out.

• Wei Fan found more than seventy years of cultivation among his spoils, along with the Giant Bear Skill and Giant Bear Palm in Zhang Huaiyu’s bags.
• Wei Fan used ten years of cultivation to raise the Giant Bear Skill to the Ninth Level, increasing his strength and transforming his body into a towering, bear-like form.
• Wei Fan spent thirty years perfecting the Giant Bear Palm and comprehended the Giant Bear True Intent, greatly amplifying its power.
• The eastern district celebrated the Fierce Tiger Gang’s destruction, and the shopkeeper gave Wei Fan free meat buns in gratitude.
• A girl returned to the Zhang residence after the gang’s fall, but her uncle Zhang Erlang claimed the house and threatened to drive her out as bystanders watched.

Wei Fan rescued Old Man Zhang’s granddaughter from Zhang Erlang and began his first day taking over Li Shen’s men and territory. He laid down strict rules for his yamen runners, several of whom quit, then led the remaining seven out onto the streets.

• Zhang Erlang tried to drive Little Ya from her home and blamed her for Old Man Zhang’s death until Wei Fan struck him and arrested him.
• Wei Fan promised Little Ya she could seek his help at the yamen and escorted Zhang Erlang there, where the yamen runners angrily took him away.
• Wei Fan gathered his subordinates, found Hu Qing among them, and warned her to report for roll call on time.
• Wei Fan ordered his men to arrest anyone who broke the law in his territory and promised to accept responsibility for their actions.
• Three yamen runners quit rather than follow Wei Fan’s rules, leaving seven who stayed as he promised to train them and led them into the streets.

Wei Fan patrolled his territory, learned about the demons outside Cloud City, and trained his subordinates before using his cultivation to develop saber intent. He left the chapter having confirmed that saber intent could empower any saber technique and cut through stone without strength or true qi.

• Wei Fan patrolled the eastern district as Hu Qing warned him that the demons outside Cloud City might avenge the Tiger King's family and named Great Immortal Huang, Hu Meiniang, and the Bear Demon.
• Wei Fan instructed his subordinates at the training ground, helping Zhou Qi advance his Blood Fiend Saber Technique and Liu Chengzhou advance his Golden Bell Shield.
• Wei Fan spent fifty years of cultivation on the Roaring Tiger Golden Bell Shield but saw no improvement, then invested cultivation in the Blood Fiend Saber Technique.
• After spending sixty years cultivating, Wei Fan condensed entry-level saber intent, which split his desk and stool before he withdrew it.
• Wei Fan tested his saber intent on a stone with a wooden stick and cut the stone without using true qi or his physical strength.