Chapter Summaries

Wei Fan defeated the Dragon-Horned Deer in the arena despite his healing ability and control over heavenly lightning. He broke off both of the demon’s antlers, crippled him, and skewered him alive, leaving the demons stunned by their crushing defeat.

• The Dragon-Horned Deer healed his injuries through his antlers, then summoned heavenly lightning against Wei Fan.
• Wei Fan expanded his domain, overpowered the Dragon-Horned Deer’s domain, and landed a punch that sent him flying.
• The Dragon-Horned Deer unleashed gray lightning from his antlers, but Wei Fan endured it and struck back, breaking both of his arms.
• Wei Fan caught the fallen Dragon-Horned Deer, snapped off both antlers, and broke his legs to stop him from recovering.
• Wei Fan skewered the Dragon-Horned Deer with a spear, while the demons watched in shock as their side suffered a crushing defeat.

Wei Fan killed the Dragon-Horned Deer after driving the demons from the arena, then joined a celebratory banquet in Lin Yao City as news of his victory spread across Beiding Continent. Zhilan Sect debated how to deal with him, while Wei Fan perfected the Human Emperor Bell and wondered whether it could threaten a Martial Saint.

• Niu Jiang's guardian withdrew, the demons scattered, and Wei Fan killed the Dragon-Horned Deer, gaining cultivation power.
• Wei Fan and Feng Hua received apologies and thanks from the humans, returned the remains of fallen fighters, and declined Gu Qing's offer to mediate with Zhilan Sect.
• Feng Hua agreed to attend Yan Zhanhong's banquet because she was preparing to break through to the Martial King Eighth Layer.
• News of Wei Fan and Feng Hua's victory spread across Beiding Continent, and Zhilan Sect's elders debated making peace or arranging his death.
• Wei Fan spent 500,000 years of cultivation power to perfect the Human Emperor Bell and considered its strength against a Martial Saint.

After claiming rewards in Tianxing City and keeping out of sight, Wei Fan, Feng Hua, and Zhi Hua chose an urgent Demon Hunter mission in Youshan City. Gu Ziqin, Wei Zhenyang, and Linghu Yingjie left for the Wasteland, and the remaining three set out to investigate the disappearance of people from two villages.

• Wei Fan and his companions returned to Tianxing City in disguise and collected merit points and Spirit Crystal bounties for their battle in Lin Yao City.
• Gu Ziqin left for the Wasteland, followed two days later by Wei Zhenyang and Linghu Yingjie, leaving Zhi Hua with Wei Fan and Feng Hua.
• Wei Fan learned about the Five Great Domains from Zhi Hua while the group lay low and searched for a suitable mission.
• Wei Fan, Feng Hua, and Zhi Hua chose a mission to investigate why more than a thousand people had vanished from two villages near Youshan City and why the city lord had concealed it.
• The three left Tianxing City for Youshan City, a journey expected to take seven or eight days.

Wei Fan, Feng Hua, and Zhi Hua investigated the disappearances of several villages around Youshan City, where they found no traces in the abandoned homes or nearby wilderness. Their search led them to the Zhong Family’s suspiciously concealed compound, where they discovered a pervasive stench of human corpses and black smoke rising over the mountain.

• Wei Fan learned that people in Youshan City avoided martial cultivation because demons preyed on those with vigorous blood and qi, and he heard that four villages had vanished, including Li Family Manor.
• Wei Fan and his companions searched an empty village and the surrounding area but found no clues, so they decided to investigate forces protected by arrays.
• Wei Fan quietly broke into a Martial King force’s array and searched its grounds, then led Feng Hua and Zhi Hua to inspect the strongest families in the city.
• Wei Fan noticed that the Zhong Family’s array emphasized concealing its presence and opened a hidden gap after carefully studying it.
• Wei Fan, Feng Hua, and Zhi Hua entered the Zhong Family compound, smelled rotting human corpses, and saw black smoke billowing above its mountain.

Wei Fan, Feng Hua, and Zhi Hua discovered that the Zhong Family had spent five thousand years cultivating Netherworld Soil to revive its ancestor through the Nether God Reincarnation Great Method. After Feng Hua learned the ancestor might soon emerge and destroy Youshan City, she took Wei Fan’s Sacred Weapon to confront the threat.

• Zhong Jian'an ordered his disciples to feed abducted people’s corpses into the Netherworld Soil, believing the Zhong Family ancestor would soon reincarnate.
• Feng Hua sensed an evil aura at the Zhong Family estate, and she, Wei Fan, and Zhi Hua broke into the Zhong Clan Ancestral Shrine.
• The trio found a vast pool of Netherworld Soil and a giant coffin, and Feng Hua recognized the Zhong Family’s forbidden reincarnation method.
• Wei Fan subdued Zhong Jian'an, while Feng Hua struck down the Zhong Family members who were still feeding corpses into the pool.
• Zhong Jian'an revealed that the Zhong Family had cultivated the soil for five thousand years and threatened that the ancestor would slaughter Youshan City.
• Zhi Hua urged them to retreat, but Feng Hua asked for Wei Fan’s Dragon Pattern Gilded Bottle and asked him what the Nether God Reincarnation Great Method was.

Wei Fan and Feng Hua discovered that the Zhong Family’s reincarnation ritual had awakened a terrifying creature posing as their ancestor. As the creature attacked, Wei Fan revealed a power that could withstand its aura, leaving Feng Hua and Zhi Hua to retreat and watch.

• Zhi Hua and Feng Hua identified the coffin’s ritual as the Nether God Reincarnation Great Method, and Zhong Jian'an said the intended ancestor had been a Martial King Ninth Layer expert.
• Feng Hua awakened the Dragon Pattern Gilded Bottle, killing the injured Zhong Family disciples, but a roar from the coffin repelled the Sacred Weapon.
• The coffin burst open, and a monster revealed that it had replaced the Zhong Family ancestor and used him as nourishment; Zhong Jian'an died under its aura.
• The monster gathered blood and qi from the dead and threatened Feng Hua, while Wei Fan blocked its aura with golden light.
• Feng Hua warned Zhi Hua to keep Wei Fan’s hidden power secret, and Wei Fan told the monster it could die as ten thousand zhang of golden light erupted around him.

Wei Fan killed the evil Martial Saint with the perfected Human Emperor Bell and concealed the weapon’s power from Feng Hua and Zhi Hua. While returning to Youshan City, he asked about the Golden Bell Shield and learned that it was an ancient, once-mainstream martial art whose inheritance might survive somewhere in the Five Great Regions.

• Wei Fan unleashed the Human Emperor Bell’s Golden Lightning and Golden Crow True Fire, killing the monster and destroying the Zhong Family’s mountain estate.
• Wei Fan told Feng Hua and Zhi Hua to report the enemy as a Martial King Ninth Layer reincarnation so others would not learn about his weapon, and they agreed.
• Wei Fan asked Feng Hua and Zhi Hua whether they knew of the Golden Bell Shield, seeking a cultivation method beyond its True Qi Realm form.
• Feng Hua explained that few people cultivated the Golden Bell Shield in the Five Great Regions and suggested offering a reward through the Demon Hunter Organization for a complete inheritance.
• Feng Hua revealed that the Golden Bell Shield had once been a mainstream martial art and one of humanity’s mother martial arts, then began explaining how ancient martial arts differed from modern ones.

Wei Fan learned about ancient martial arts and broke through to the Martial King Fifth Layer while staying in Youshan City. The City Lord's Manor forced the inn to make way for guests of the Chen Family, and Wei Fan emerged as a Chen Family man demanded to see him.

• Feng Hua explained that ancient martial artists skipped the Aperture Opening Realm and cultivated through Heavenly Human Unity, but she did not know who created the Golden Bell Shield.
• Wei Fan decided to break through before returning to the Wasteland, where he hoped to protect its people after the Dao Collapse ended; Zhi Hua was shocked to learn he was only nineteen.
• Officials collected one thousand Spirit Crystals from the restaurant as a gift for the City Lord's daughter's wedding, prompting Feng Hua to plan to confront the Chen Family.
• Wei Fan used one thousand years of Martial King Cultivation Power to break through to the Martial King Fifth Layer.
• The next morning, the City Lord's Manor requisitioned the inn, and a man in blue demanded that Wei Fan come out as Wei Fan opened his door.

Wei Fan took Chen Yuanxiang to the Chen Family’s manor after Chen Yuanxiang threatened them for slighting the family’s guests, then attacked the clan when its members refused to produce those guests. Feng Hua overwhelmed the Chen Family’s Martial Kings and killed Chen Xuelun before he could activate Youshan City’s grand formation.

• Wei Fan seized Chen Yuanxiang at the inn after the Chen Family man threatened them, then carried him toward the City Lord’s Manor with Zhi Hua and Feng Hua following.
• Chen Xuewu came out with Chen Family disciples and politely asked Wei Fan why he had come, but Wei Fan killed Chen Yuanxiang and crushed the charging disciples with a giant hand.
• Wei Fan captured Chen Xuewu and demanded that the Chen Family bring out its noble guest.
• Chen Xuelun and three other Martial Kings surged out of the manor, but Feng Hua struck them down with one palm.
• Chen Xuelun tried to activate Youshan City’s grand formation, but Feng Hua cut off his arm, took the formation flag, and killed him.

Feng Hua and Wei Fan destroyed the Chen Family after learning of its abuses against Youshan City's people, then left the city despite warnings about the Qianyue Sect. Wei Fan set out to roam the martial world as a wandering hero, equipping himself and his companions with three spirit-infused horses.

• Feng Hua killed Chen Xuelun and the Chen Family's three Martial Kings, while Wei Fan and Zhi Hua confronted Chen Xuewu about the family's oppression of the people.
• Wei Fan crushed Chen Xuewu after he threatened revenge from the Qianyue Sect and the Qingshan Association.
• Feng Hua announced that the Chen Family had been eliminated, left its formation banner for a worthy new city master, and departed Youshan City with Wei Fan and Zhi Hua.
• Zhi Hua warned Wei Fan that the Qianyue Sect was Beiding Continent's foremost sect beneath the Sacred Sects, but Wei Fan dismissed the threat.
• Wei Fan said he wanted to roam the martial world, then brought back three white horses and used Beast Rings, blood qi, and Spirit Medicine to transform them into fine Demonic Beasts.

Wei Fan, Feng Hua, and Zhi Hua formed the White Horse Trio and set out for the Leishan Martial Arts Gathering, where Wei Fan hoped to investigate the mysterious Leishan Heavenly Skill. As they traveled, Feng Hua explained the ancient single-realm martial arts that included body tempering, leaving Wei Fan curious about the skill’s secrets.

• Wei Fan chose the title Yun City Spear Hero, and he, Feng Hua, and Zhi Hua named their group the White Horse Trio.
• Zhi Hua suggested they travel to her hometown for the Leishan Martial Arts Gathering, where martial artists gathered to study an unnamed skill carved into Thunder Mountain.
• Feng Hua and Zhi Hua told Wei Fan that no one, including Xuanyuan Peak, had fully comprehended the Leishan Heavenly Skill, though Tong Jingchang had gained great strength from understanding part of it.
• Zhi Hua explained that Tong Jingchang’s breakthrough had led people to suspect the Leishan Heavenly Skill was a body-tempering art.
• Feng Hua described Ancient Martial Arts and explained how body tempering and other single-realm paths differed from the modern cultivation system.

Wei Fan and the White Horse Trio encountered Tong Jingting and Li Qingshan, who came to avenge the Chen Family of Youshan City. Wei Fan fought Li Qingshan with his bare hands and killed him, while Feng Hua prepared to face Tong Jingting.

• Wei Fan learned from Zhi Hua that Tong Jingchang had refined Qianyue Sect’s body cultivation technique after comprehending the Nameless Technique at Thunder Mountain, which became known as the Leishan Heavenly Skill.
• Tong Jingting and Li Qingshan arrived in a Sea of Blood and demanded to know whether the White Horse Trio had destroyed the Chen Family; Feng Hua confirmed it and explained that the family had abused the common people.
• Feng Hua announced that the White Horse Trio had acted to uphold justice, and Li Qingshan charged at them to avenge Xiao Ying and the others.
• Wei Fan challenged Li Qingshan to a contest of physical strength, struck him down, and destroyed his head and Primordial Spirit.
• Wei Fan took Li Qingshan’s divine weapon and storage gourd, then destroyed his corpse.

Feng Hua killed Li Qingshan and Tong Jingting, but a hidden assassin then ambushed Wei Fan. Wei Fan survived by using Form Follows Will and killed the assassin, leaving him worried that witnesses might recognize the secret technique.

• Wei Fan killed Li Qingshan, and Feng Hua killed Tong Jingting after he pleaded for mercy.
• Wei Fan's Golden Nascent Soul warned him of danger as a black-robed assassin appeared and struck with a sword beam.
• The assassin's attack cut through Wei Fan's afterimage, and Wei Fan reappeared behind him and killed him with the Five Emperors Fist.
• Wei Fan realized that he had used Form Follows Will in front of spectators and feared they might connect it to the Nine Transformations of the Divine Silkworm.
• Zhi Hua and Feng Hua rushed to Wei Fan and recognized that the dead attacker had been an assassin.

Wei Fan learned about Black Nether’s assassination grades and suspected Zhilan Sect had hired the assassin sent after him. He confirmed he had learned the Five Emperors Fist in the Wasteland, then continued traveling with Feng Hua and Zhi Hua as the White Horse Trio while they searched for wrongdoers.

• Feng Hua explained that Black Nether was a powerful assassin organization whose missions ranged from one attempt to endless attempts, and warned Wei Fan to prepare for as many as three attacks.
• Wei Fan suspected Zhilan Sect had hired the assassin because it knew his aura, and he worried that revealing the Nine Transformations of the Divine Silkworm would bring even greater danger.
• Feng Hua asked whether Wei Fan had used the Five Emperors Fist, and he confirmed that he had learned it in the Wasteland rather than from Xuanyuan Peak.
• Wei Fan revealed to Zhi Hua that he came from the Wasteland, and she agreed to keep his origin secret.
• Feng Hua warned Wei Fan that Xuanyuan Peak’s enemies might target him if he used the Five Emperors Fist openly, since he was its second known practitioner.
• Wei Fan, Feng Hua, and Zhi Hua traveled as the White Horse Trio, asking people where they could find villains, demons, and corrupt officials to oppose.

Wei Fan and his companions encountered a White Bone Tribe pair pursued by the Blackwater Bandits and witnessed a hidden power in an abandoned temple erase the attackers. After learning the pair were Li Ya's elder brother and his companion, Wei Fan discovered they were carrying a Demon Suppressing Stone back to the tribe, where trouble had been growing more frequent.

• More than ten days into their journey, Wei Fan reached the Martial King Sixth Layer, and the three took shelter in an unusual abandoned temple as night fell.
• A group of Martial Kings pursued and badly wounded a man and woman, who fled into the temple while their leader demanded the Demon Suppressing Stone.
• The figure that appeared on the temple altar opened its forehead eye and unleashed a beam that erased the Martial King Ninth Layer leader and his companions.
• Wei Fan showed the pair the Elder token Li Ya had given him, and the man identified himself as Li Ya's elder brother before accepting medicine and explaining their predicament.
• Li Ya's elder brother said the pair had obtained the Demon Suppressing Stone and were being hunted by the Blackwater Bandits; Wei Fan offered to escort them, but he said the tribe's experts were already coming.

Wei Fan traveled to Thunder Mountain with Feng Hua and Yang Zhihua to study the Leishan Heavenly Skill, while questions about the mysterious figure summoned at the abandoned temple remained unanswered. The panel identified the cliff diagrams as part of an incomplete Ancient Martial Art called the Nine-Nine True Skill, and Wei Fan suspected the rest would appear during a thunderstorm.

• The White Bone Tribe elders took Qi Chao and the woman away with the Demon Suppressing Stone, warned Wei Fan and his companions to leave at dawn, and refused to explain the taboo at Cangwu Mountain.
• Wei Fan, Feng Hua, and Yang Zhihua left the temple at dawn and traveled to Yinchuan City, where many martial artists were gathering for the Leishan Martial Arts Gathering.
• Yang Zhihua and Feng Hua explained that the Leishan Heavenly Skill could only be comprehended during thunderstorms, then led Wei Fan to the diagrams carved into Thunder Mountain.
• Wei Fan studied all eighty-one diagrams and found that they seemed ordinary, but his panel recorded them as the incomplete Nine-Nine True Skill.
• Wei Fan concluded that the diagrams were only part of an Ancient Martial Art and wondered whether the remaining portion appeared during thunderstorms.

Wei Fan revealed himself at an inn after stopping two Zhilan Sect disciples from killing a man who had criticized their sect. He killed one disciple and ordered Senior Brother Jiang to summon the nearby Zhilan Sect experts.

• Wei Fan, Feng Hua, and Zhi Hua left the cliff without discussing his discovery of the Leishan Heavenly Skill and waited in town for the stormy weather after the martial discussion.
• At an inn, patrons criticized Zhilan Sect for pursuing Wei Fan, and two core disciples confronted them.
• One core disciple wounded a man who defended Wei Fan and prepared to kill him, but Wei Fan seized both disciples and revealed his identity.
• Wei Fan crushed the disciples' bones and demanded that Senior Brother Jiang summon the Zhilan Sect experts nearby.
• When Senior Brother Jiang hesitated, Wei Fan snapped the other disciple's neck and destroyed his Primordial Spirit, then blamed Jiang for the man's death.

Wei Fan and Feng Hua killed three Zhilan Sect members in Thunder Mountain town after questioning the sect’s attempt to kill him in Zhilan City. Wei Fan then advanced to Martial King Seventh Layer, while the group remained at Thunder Mountain awaiting the storm and possible retaliation.

• Wei Fan crushed a Zhilan Sect disciple, tore off Senior Brother Jiang’s arm, and killed him after the Zhilan Sect’s Martial King Ninth Layer expert arrived.
• Feng Hua defeated the Martial King Ninth Layer expert and killed him when he refused to explain why the Zhilan Sect had tried to kill Wei Fan.
• Wei Fan’s group stayed in town, and he told Feng Hua and Zhi Hua that his insights into the Leishan Heavenly Skill might only become clear when stormy weather arrived.
• Wei Fan checked his cultivation panel and decided he needed to grow stronger before more Zhilan Sect experts arrived.
• Wei Fan advanced to Martial King Seventh Layer that night, and Feng Hua and Zhi Hua remarked that he might surpass Xuanyuan Peak’s record.

Wei Fan discovered that the incomplete Nine-Nine True Skill required lightning to temper his body, condensed a lightning seed, and reached the Martial King Seventh Layer. At the martial discussion in Beiding Continent, Tian Qiuping of Huoyun Cave challenged him to fight.

• Wei Fan used a thread of golden lightning to decipher the Nine-Nine True Skill and began cultivating its diagrams alongside lightning.
• Wei Fan cultivated through the ninth diagram and condensed a lightning seed, but stopped because the technique was incomplete.
• Zhi Hua and Feng Hua noticed Wei Fan’s changed physique and vigorous aura, and Wei Fan said he had comprehended the Leishan Heavenly Skill.
• Wei Fan attended the martial discussion, where he found the elders’ theories about the Nine-Nine True Skill mistaken and watched young martial artists spar.
• Tian Qiuping of Huoyun Cave stepped onto the arena and challenged Wei Fan to fight.

At the Leishan Martial Arts Gathering, Wei Fan answered Tian Qiuping’s repeated provocations and revealed that he had reached the Martial King Seventh Layer. After defeating and killing Tian Qiuping, a disciple of the Martial Saint Tian Chunqiu, Wei Fan left the gathering facing another powerful enemy; the hosts announced that they would summon a thunderstorm that afternoon to reveal the Leishan Heavenly Skill.

• Tian Qiuping challenged Wei Fan, then continued taunting him after Wei Fan refused to spar.
• Tian Qiuping struck several Martial Kings aside and attacked Wei Fan as soon as he stepped onto the arena.
• Wei Fan revealed his Martial King Seventh Layer cultivation and shattered Tian Qiuping’s golden palm with one punch.
• Tian Qiuping tried to flee and begged Wei Fan to stop, but Wei Fan beat him down and demanded to know why he had attacked.
• Tian Qiuping invoked his master, the Martial Saint Tian Chunqiu, but Wei Fan crushed his head and Primordial Spirit, then took his storage gourd.
• The gathering ended soon afterward, and its hosts announced that they would create a thunderstorm that afternoon to draw out the Leishan Heavenly Skill.