Chapter Summaries

Wei Fan climbed the palace’s aptitude-testing Heaven-Reaching Ladder and reached its ninth step, while the others were teleported away at their limits. He opened the palace gates and found demon-headed armored warriors that might be Qi Daozhen’s Twelve Zodiac Demon Generals.

• Yang Peiwen tested the ladder first and was teleported away after failing to climb to the fourth step.
• The other Martial Kings climbed the stairs and were teleported away at their limits, while Feng Hua vanished after attempting the eighth step.
• Wei Fan endured the pressure, drew out the Golden Nascent Soul’s potential, and reached the ninth stair without being teleported.
• Wei Fan touched the palace gates, endured their attempt to drain his power and Primordial Spirit, and opened them after the suction stopped.
• Wei Fan saw a row of dead, demon-headed armored warriors and recognized them as possibly Qi Daozhen’s Twelve Zodiac Demon Generals.

Wei Fan found the Three Sovereigns Scripture in a mausoleum and rode a golden coffin through the Void World, escaping beyond the Wasteland. After breaking through to the Martial King Second Layer, he encountered a place where humans raised demons and devils, and a shepherd boy challenged him.

• Wei Fan entered the mausoleum beneath the Human Emperor Bell and found two coffins, then took the Three Sovereigns Scripture from the altar.
• The golden and jade coffins drifted into the Void World with Wei Fan aboard, and their collision tore open a rift that let him escape beyond the Wasteland.
• Wei Fan sensed the dense essence in the unfamiliar region and broke through from the Martial King First Layer to the Second Layer through his own cultivation.
• Wei Fan used Feng Hua's token to sense her distant presence and sent her a message before traveling down the mountain.
• Wei Fan discovered humans raising herds of demons and devils, and a shepherd boy asked who he was and why he had appeared there.

Wei Fan landed in Cangwu Mountain and accepted Li Ya’s offer to stay with the White Bone Tribe until a trading party could escort him to a human city. The tribe leader recognized him as someone from the Wasteland, while Feng Hua warned him to remain where he was because Cangwu Mountain held many Forbidden Lands.

• Wei Fan met the Leopard-skin Man and other White Bone Tribe members, who told him to leave Cangwu Mountain, but Li Ya intervened and invited him to stay with her tribe.
• Li Ya explained that the White Bone Tribe herded beasts controlled by Beast Rings and escorted Wei Fan to the tribe, where he saw its ancient temple and stone houses.
• The tribe leader examined Wei Fan, recognized that he came from the Wasteland, and ordered the tribe to welcome him with its highest ceremony.
• Li Ya settled Wei Fan in a stone house and asked about conditions in the Wasteland before leaving to prepare the welcome.
• Feng Hua contacted Wei Fan, confirmed he might be in Cangwu Mountain, and warned him to stay put because the area contained many Forbidden Lands.

Wei Fan studied the Three Sovereigns Scripture and used his panel to create and cultivate a superior mental method, then discovered that an evil entity had killed a White Bone Tribe warrior without anyone noticing. Li Ya warned him that the entity was not hiding among the gathered people.

• Wei Fan read the Three Sovereigns' discussion of cultivation and found that its revelations ended at the Martial King Realm, while the panel marked the scripture as uninitiated.
• Wei Fan used the panel to develop the Three Sovereigns Scripture's mental method and replace the Guangling Martial Codex, reaching the initiated Martial King Second Layer.
• Wei Fan suspected Qi Daozhen had possessed the Three Sovereigns Scripture as well as the Nine Transformations of the Divine Silkworm.
• Wei Fan awoke to find that an evil entity had killed a White Bone Tribe man with Golden Body Eighth Refinement cultivation.
• Wei Fan heard tribe members say the entity had attacked before and searched the gathered people, but Li Ya told him it was not hiding among them.

Wei Fan hunted with Li Ya and the White Bone Tribe, earning the warriors’ respect by killing a Tiger Demon with his physical strength alone. That night he followed a phantom to the tribe’s temple and learned it suppressed an unnameable taboo, but another tribesman died at dawn, leaving Wei Fan resolved to return after surpassing the Martial Saint realm.

• Li Ya warned Wei Fan that Cangwu Mountain’s taboos sometimes left their territories to feed, and Feng Hua told him to wait and leave with the White Bone Tribe.
• Li Ya took Wei Fan hunting and explained that Cangwu Mountain was a vast mountain range where both the ground and sky were dangerous.
• Wei Fan killed a Tiger Demon without using the power of heaven and earth, earning Qi Yong and the other hunters’ sincere admiration.
• Wei Fan sensed a phantom at night and chased it to the White Bone Tribe’s temple, where the tribe leader and elders explained that the temple worshipped and suppressed a taboo that could not be spoken of.
• The tribe leader told Wei Fan to return after surpassing the Martial Saint realm, and another tribesman died at dawn despite the taboo’s suppression.

Wei Fan traveled with the White Bone Tribe through Cangwu Mountain, survived an encounter with a head-seeking taboo, and reached Zhilan City. There he reunited with Feng Hua and gave her the Three Sovereigns Scripture, which she believed might be the original record of the Human Sovereigns’ discussion.

• Wei Fan joined Qi Cheng, Li Ya, Qi Yong, and the others on their journey to Zhilan City, while Feng Hua warned him about surviving Cangwu Mountain’s taboos.
• When Qi Cheng’s bronze lamp went out, the group hid beneath the Demonic Beasts as a fog-shrouded presence passed nearby; afterward, they found five beasts dead and one head missing.
• After five more days, Wei Fan and the group left Cangwu Mountain and reached Zhilan City, where Li Ya gave him a bone token from the tribe leader.
• Wei Fan parted from the White Bone Tribe and reunited with Feng Hua at an inn, where he told her what had happened after they separated.
• Wei Fan gave Feng Hua the Three Sovereigns Scripture, and she recognized that its blank golden pages might hold the original account of the Human Sovereigns discussing the Dao.

Wei Fan heard that Demon Saints were entering the Wasteland after the demons there were wiped out, then confronted Hu Shiqi, a disguised Fox Clan Demon King, in a Zhilan City tavern. After Hu Shiqi failed to convince the crowd he was human, Wei Fan declared that killing him would reveal the truth.

• Wei Fan listened as tavern patrons discussed Demon Saints entering the Wasteland and the human Martial Kings who had cleared it of demons and monsters.
• A white-clad youth condemned the Wasteland’s demon-slaying as reckless, and Wei Fan challenged his claim that Demon Saints would retaliate.
• Wei Fan identified the youth as Hu Shiqi, a Fox Clan Demon King who had eaten countless humans.
• Hu Shiqi released righteous blood qi and convinced some patrons that he was human, while others demanded evidence from Wei Fan.
• Wei Fan said the simplest proof was to kill Hu Shiqi and make him reveal his true form.

Wei Fan killed the demon Hu Shiqi in a Zhilan City tavern, then discovered the city patrol was using the deaths of Hu Shiqi’s demon slaves to target him. When the patrol tried to seize him, Wei Fan killed several patrolmen, setting himself against the Zhilan Sect.

• Hu Shiqi attacked Wei Fan, but Wei Fan swiftly killed Hu Shiqi’s guards and maidservants, seized him, and snapped his neck.
• Hu Shiqi reverted to his golden fox form, and a Fox Clan Vengeance Mark entered Wei Fan’s body after his death.
• Zhilan City patrolmen arrived and accused Wei Fan of killing people, despite witnesses explaining that Hu Shiqi had been a demon.
• Wei Fan presented Hu Shiqi’s corpse as proof, but the patrol leader ordered the patrolmen to seize him and kill him if he resisted.
• Wei Fan shattered the patrolmen’s chains and killed several of them, leaving the patrol leader shocked that he had dared attack Zhilan City’s patrol.

Wei Fan confronted Zhilan City after its patrolmen tried to seize him and a hidden force killed their captain. Outside the city, he began fighting Hou Zhijie, whose Void Condensing Sword Art shattered under Wei Fan’s casual palm strike.

• Wei Fan tried to search the patrol captain’s soul, but the man’s storage gourd exploded and killed him before Wei Fan could learn who had sent the patrolmen.
• Feng Hua suspected the attack was aimed at her, and she and Wei Fan left the tavern, only to be confronted by Hou Zhijie and more patrolmen.
• Wei Fan and Hou Zhijie argued over the patrolmen’s deaths, then agreed to settle the dispute outside Zhilan City.
• Hou Zhijie attacked Wei Fan with the Zhilan Sect’s Void Condensing Sword Art, but Wei Fan’s palm shattered his sword and sent fragments through his body.

Wei Fan crushed Hou Zhijie and searched his soul while Feng Hua fought off the Zhilan City Lord, but the Zhilan Sect escalated the confrontation by sending its Grand Elder with a Sacred Weapon. The chapter ended as the Grand Elder prepared to attack, leaving Wei Fan and Feng Hua facing a dangerous new opponent.

• Wei Fan effortlessly defeated Hou Zhijie, seized him, and demanded to know who had ordered him to target Wei Fan.
• The Zhilan City Lord attacked Wei Fan, but Feng Hua stepped in and shattered his giant hand, severely wounding him.
• Wei Fan continued searching Hou Zhijie's soul, triggering the restriction in his Primordial Spirit and killing him without learning anything.
• The Zhilan Sect's Grand Elder appeared at Martial King Ninth Layer and activated a Sacred Weapon.

Wei Fan and Feng Hua escaped Zhilan Sect after their Sacred Weapons clashed and injured both Feng Hua and the Grand Elder. While Feng Hua healed in hiding, Wei Fan advanced to Martial King Third Layer and left their revenge against Zhilan Sect and the person behind the attack for later.

• Feng Hua wielded the Dragon Pattern Gilded Bottle against Zhilan Sect's Grand Elder, and their Sacred Weapons shattered the sky while injuring both fighters.
• Wei Fan caught the nearly unconscious Feng Hua and fled with her after she warned him that Zhilan Sect possessed more Sacred Weapons.
• Zhilan Sect's experts chose not to pursue Wei Fan and Feng Hua until they learned who the two young Sacred Weapon wielders were.
• Wei Fan brought Feng Hua to a concealed cave, set up a formation, and guarded her as she began healing.
• Wei Fan used Martial King Cultivation Power over five days to break through to Martial King Third Layer, shocking Feng Hua when she awoke.

Feng Hua explained the vastness of the Tianwu Continent and offered Wei Fan two paths: join a sect or continue with the Demon Hunter Organization. Wei Fan chose to pursue the latter, and as he and Feng Hua reached the Liuyun Sect’s teleportation gate, he found that the Zhilan Sect had issued a bounty for him.

• Feng Hua described the Tianwu Continent’s scale and warned Wei Fan that powerful experts and dangers awaited beyond the Wasteland, but Wei Fan grew excited at the prospect of hunting more demons and monsters.
• Feng Hua offered Wei Fan the choice of joining a sect or the Demon Hunter Organization, and Wei Fan rejected sect life because he relied on killing demons and monsters to cultivate and wanted to avoid restraints.
• Feng Hua explained that Wei Fan’s Wasteland Demon Hunter identity would not work outside and that his origins would be investigated if he joined the true organization.
• Wei Fan and Feng Hua left the cave and headed for Tianxing City, choosing to travel through the Liuyun Sect’s Teleportation Domain Gate.
• At the valley near the Liuyun Sect, Wei Fan saw his portrait on a wanted notice issued by the Zhilan Sect.

Wei Fan and Feng Hua traveled to Tianxing City after the Zhilan Sect placed a misleading bounty on Wei Fan. When bounty hunters attacked them outside the Liuyun Sect’s teleportation square, the pair swiftly killed them and continued toward the city.

• Gu Qing stopped several people from attacking Wei Fan and Feng Hua at the Liuyun Sect’s Teleportation Domain Gate, then left without befriending or fighting them.
• Wei Fan and Feng Hua took the Teleportation Domain Gate to Tianxing City and saw Wei Fan’s bounty posted near the arrival square.
• The black-robed man and his two companions blocked Wei Fan and Feng Hua on the road, hoping to claim the bounty.
• Wei Fan revealed that he and Feng Hua had killed a Zhilan Sect core disciple and injured the Zhilan City Lord and Grand Elder, frightening the bounty hunters into fleeing.
• Feng Hua killed the black-robed man with one palm, while Wei Fan killed his two companions with a punch each.
• Wei Fan and Feng Hua continued toward Tianxing City as onlookers recognized Wei Fan and warned others not to underestimate him.

Wei Fan and Feng Hua entered Tianxing City, where Wei Fan learned about the crisis in Lin Yao City and the Demon Hunter rankings. During registration, Zhou Shen confirmed Wei Fan's Wasteland origins and let him skip the assessment, leaving him to collect his Demon Hunter waist token.

• Wei Fan and Feng Hua arrived at Tianxing City and discussed its history, power, and rules against flying or rushing through the city.
• At a restaurant, Wei Fan heard that demons had killed human geniuses in Lin Yao City while humanity's strongest young fighters were in the Wasteland.
• Feng Hua explained the Demon Hunter star rankings and took Wei Fan to register at the city's Demon Hunter Branch Hall.
• Zhou Shen doubted Wei Fan's claim that he was a nineteen-year-old King Wu from the Wasteland, until Feng Hua confirmed his origins and service against demons.
• Zhou Shen promised to keep Wei Fan's identity confidential, gave him a token, and directed him to collect his Demon Hunter waist token without taking the assessment.

Zhou Shen learned that Wei Fan was a nineteen-year-old Martial King from the Wasteland and suspected he had inherited Xuanyuan Peak’s Five Emperors Fist. Feng Hua brought Wei Fan to join her former Demon Hunting squad, whose members accepted him after he acknowledged the risks.

• Zhou Shen told Gu Qingshan about Wei Fan’s age, cultivation, and Wasteland origins, prompting Gu Qingshan to suspect Wei Fan had inherited the Five Emperors Fist.
• Feng Hua explained the Five Great Regions’ mission system and took Wei Fan to meet her former squad.
• Zhi Hua recognized Wei Fan as the man wanted by Zhilan Sect and connected him to the incident there with Feng Hua.
• Wei Zhenyang worried Wei Fan’s supposedly low cultivation would burden the squad, but Feng Hua defended him and offered to join another squad if necessary.
• Wei Fan said the others need not risk their lives to protect him, and Zhi Hua and the rest welcomed him into the squad.

Feng Hua’s squad accepted a mission to challenge the demons terrorizing Lin Yao City, including a Five-Colored Demonic Ox that had killed a human genius. Wei Fan sensed an unseen watcher, while Gu Qingshan arranged for him to face the ox and ordered Zhou Shen to protect him from the Zhilan Sect.

• Feng Hua’s squad accepted the Lin Yao City mission and learned that the Five-Colored Demonic Ox had killed Wan Xingfang of the Liuyun Sect.
• Feng Hua revealed that Wei Fan was Martial King Third Layer, while the squadmates mistook her defense of him for a romantic attachment.
• Wei Fan sensed a hidden gaze following him until it disappeared as the group left Tianxing City.
• Gu Qingshan revealed that he had been watching Wei Fan and suspected the young man had noticed his surveillance.
• Gu Qingshan arranged for Gu Ziqin to guide the squad to Lin Yao City, hoping Wei Fan would fight the Five-Colored Demonic Ox and reveal whether he practiced the Five Emperors Fist.
• Gu Qingshan told Zhou Shen to keep watch over Wei Fan and prevent the Zhilan Sect from harming him.

At Lin Yao City, three Demon Kings provoked the humans by roasting and eating slain geniuses, including Wan Xingfang, while arena rules kept the human experts from intervening. After Gu Qing offered a huge bounty, Wei Fan charged at the Five-Colored Demonic Ox, and Gu Ziqin urged the others to trust him.

• The Five-Colored Demonic Ox, the Dragon-Horned Deer, and a snake demon taunted the crowd while roasting three human geniuses on the arenas.
• Gu Qing recognized Wan Xingfang, his fellow disciple, and offered fifty thousand Spirit Crystals and his master's favor to whoever killed the Five-Colored Demonic Ox.
• Feng Hua charged at the snake demon, while Zhi Hua and the others prepared to fight the demons.
• Wei Fan flew toward the Five-Colored Demonic Ox, ignoring Zhi Hua's warning that he was no match for it.
• Linghu Yingjie and Wei Zhenyang tried to stop Wei Fan, but Gu Ziqin blocked them and said they should trust him.

Wei Fan entered the arena and overwhelmed Niu Jiang, a Five-Colored Demonic Ox, breaking through his Five-Colored Divine Light and roasting him alive. As the crowd celebrated and the Dragon-Horned Deer threatened retaliation, Wei Fan began eating Niu Jiang and demanded that he return to his true form.

• Wei Fan and Feng Hua charged toward the arena, while spectators recognized Wei Fan as the man wanted by Zhilan Sect.
• Niu Jiang challenged Wei Fan and attacked with the Five-Colored Divine Light, but Wei Fan's blood vitality overwhelmed him.
• Wei Fan smashed through the Five-Colored Divine Light, seized Niu Jiang, and broke his bones with Dragon's Roar Sky Shattering Finger.
• Wei Fan broke Niu Jiang's legs, skewered him, and roasted him over the fire with Solar True Fire.
• The Dragon-Horned Deer demanded that Wei Fan release Niu Jiang and warned of a feud with the Five-Colored Demonic Ox Clan.
• Wei Fan ate pieces of Niu Jiang and told him to return to his true form because he disliked eating him in human form.

Wei Fan killed Niu Jiang after Feng Hua defeated the Winged Serpent, then began using his cultivation panel and Spirit Crystals to break through to the Martial King Fourth Layer. Niu Jiang’s guardian offered a vast reward to anyone who could kill Wei Fan during the vulnerable breakthrough, and a Demon King charged toward the arena.

• Feng Hua defeated the Winged Serpent Demon King, tore it apart, and roasted it, while Wei Fan continued torturing Niu Jiang.
• Niu Jiang’s guardian demanded the demons’ release, but Gu Qing and another human expert stood ready to fight, while the Dragon-Horned Deer taunted the humans.
• Wei Fan killed Niu Jiang, collected his Spirit Crystals, and began breaking through to the Martial King Fourth Layer on the arena.
• Niu Jiang’s guardian promised cultivation resources and guidance toward Demon Saint to whoever avenged the Little Ox King.
• A Demon King at the Third Layer took the reward and rushed toward Wei Fan as he cultivated.

Wei Fan used his breakthrough to lure Demon Kings onto the arena and killed three before reaching Martial King Fourth Layer. He then challenged the Dragon-Horned Deer and overwhelmed it with the Great Sun Collapse Fist, leaving it blasted away and shouting that it had Imperial Dao Sect backing.

• Hu Shixian challenged Wei Fan during his breakthrough, but Wei Fan killed him with a single palm strike.
• Wei Fan baited Niu Jiang's protector into sending two more Third Layer Demon Kings onto the arena and killed them both.
• Wei Fan broke through to Martial King Fourth Layer and flew to challenge the Dragon-Horned Deer.
• The Dragon-Horned Deer charged Wei Fan, but Wei Fan's Great Sun Collapse Fist broke through its defense and injured its fist.
• The Dragon-Horned Deer asked which Imperial Dao Sect Wei Fan belonged to, and Wei Fan blasted it away with another punch.