Chapter Summaries

Su Que infiltrated the Nineteenth Prince’s mining camp and entered the Extreme Ice Cold Pond to cultivate, where he awakened a Cold Pond Snow Dragon. As he evaded the beast, Lin Taiyi, Pei Jian, and Tie Langshan plunged into the pond to search for Ice Soul Luminous Grass before hunting it.

• Su Que captured a soldier, learned that the Nineteenth Prince’s forces were mining Cold Profound Iron with help from the Lin family and Hidden Iron Mountain Manor, then released him after warning him to stay silent.
• Su Que hid his pills and map, slipped past the soldiers, and dived into the Extreme Ice Cold Pond to cultivate Evil Fist Ice-Fire Seven Heavens.
• Su Que’s cultivation progressed as the pond’s ice force strengthened his body, but he sensed killing intent beneath him and broke free from the ice encasing him.
• A giant white Cold Pond Snow Dragon emerged from the pond and attacked Su Que, who dodged its bite.
• Lin Taiyi identified the beast and told Pei Jian and Tie Langshan that Ice Soul Luminous Grass might grow in the pond, so the three entered the water to search for it before hunting the dragon.

Su Que subdued the Cold Pond Snow Dragon and killed the Lin Household archer who attacked him, then demanded the Ice Soul Luminous Grass from the men who emerged from the pond. When they resisted, he killed Lin Taiyi, Tie Langshan, and Pei Jian, leaving the surviving soldiers and household fighters facing him.

• Su Que knocked out the Cold Pond Snow Dragon with the Seven Injuries Fist and waited for the Ice Soul Luminous Grass to be brought up from the pond.
• A Lin Household disciple fired an arrow at Su Que, and Su Que caught it and hurled it back, killing the archer.
• Tie Langshan, Lin Taiyi, and Pei Jian emerged with bundles of Ice Soul Luminous Grass, and Lin Taiyi refused Su Que's claim to the beast and herbs.
• Su Que demanded the herbs and ordered the group to leave, then killed Lin Taiyi by smashing his swords and head with a punch.
• Tie Langshan and Pei Jian attacked Su Que together, but Su Que killed Tie Langshan with a punch and beheaded Pei Jian with a demonic blade aura.

Su Que killed Pei Jian, Tie Langshan, and Lin Taiyi, harvested their Ice Soul Luminous Grass, and extracted the Cold Pond Snow Dragon’s essence before cultivating the fifth heaven of the Evil Fist Ice-Fire Seven Heavens. After returning to Jiannan Prefecture, he entrusted the rare materials to Old Daoist Qingxuan and learned from a Sky Breaking Army scout that Tai Tian Volcano lay near Shangjing, giving him a destination for training the sixth heaven.

• Su Que took the Ice Soul Luminous Grass from the three dead leaders and absorbed their Death Qi, then learned from captured Lin family disciples that the Cold Pond Snow Dragon could not survive outside its icy habitat.
• Su Que used twelve longswords to draw out the Cold Pond Snow Dragon’s essence, wrapped it in Lin family inner armor, and stored it in the cold pond while he cultivated.
• Su Que broke through to the fifth realm of the Evil Fist Ice-Fire Seven Heavens, increasing his Lifespan to 736 and Talent Value to 146.
• Su Que returned to Jiannan Prefecture and gave the snow dragon essence and Ice Soul Luminous Grass to Old Daoist Qingxuan, who agreed to seek a recipe or develop a new pill.
• Su Que asked the Sky Breaking Army for the location of an active volcano, and a scout identified Tai Tian Volcano near Shangjing as a place for him to train the sixth heaven.

Su Que used Seven Revolutions Qilin Pills to break through his Demonic Blade mastery and raise his Gang Condensation Realm cultivation to its twelve-zhang peak. After testing his stronger Gang Qi on a mountain, he prepared to pursue the Divine Intent Realm, whose cultivation methods were closely guarded.

• Su Que practiced the Demonic Blade in a forest until it advanced to Level 6, then returned home and checked Su Jing's condition.
• Su Que spent days cultivating with Seven Revolutions Qilin Pills, raising his Gang Qi from ten zhang to twelve zhang.
• Su Que visited Purple Sun Temple for more pills and learned that Old Daoist Qingxuan was researching new formulas but lacked permission to consult his lord's Pill Recipes.
• Su Que tested his improved cultivation by cutting a deep passage through a hill with his twelve-zhang blade Gang Qi.
• Su Que decided to begin breaking through to the Divine Intent Realm and considered how its cultivation methods were held by the imperial court and great Aristocratic Clans.

Su Que sought a Divine Intent Realm cultivation method and learned from Li Xuanji that the realm involved preserving divine intent within the body. He then traveled to Tai Tian Volcano to cultivate the sixth heaven of Evil Fist Ice-Fire Seven Heavens, leaving the story with him jumping naked into the crater.

• Su Que visited the Sky Breaking Army residence and learned from Qiu Yu how to locate Li Xuanji through several Central Plains contacts.
• Su Que found Li Xuanji, who described the basic principles of Divine Intent Realm cultivation and promised to retrieve books on its methods.
• Su Que decided to improve his martial attainment and traveled to Tai Tian Volcano to cultivate the sixth heaven of Evil Fist Ice-Fire Seven Heavens.
• Su Que used Myriad Poison True Qi to knock out the Daoists guarding the volcano, subdued the two Gang Condensation Realm cultivators, and ensured they would remain unconscious for three days.
• Su Que buried his clothes and mask beside the crater, then jumped naked into the volcano.

Su Que cultivated the Sixth Heaven of Evil Fist Ice-Fire Seven Heavens in the volcano and broke through to Level 6, drawing the attention of Liu Zhanhuo, an Earth Fiend Guard. After Liu Zhanhuo descended to investigate and confronted him, Su Que attacked, and Liu Zhanhuo mistook his martial art for the Blazing Ice Divine Skill.

• Su Que submerged himself in the volcanic magma and cultivated until Evil Fist Ice-Fire Seven Heavens reached Level 6, extending his lifespan by fifteen years.
• His breakthrough sent magma erupting from the crater, and the awakened True Profound Sect Daoists mistook it for a volcanic eruption.
• Liu Zhanhuo investigated the disturbance, believed it might signal a treasure or exotic beast, and descended into the magma with his Fire Pattern Blade.
• Su Que sensed Liu Zhanhuo's early Divine Intent Realm cultivation, while Liu Zhanhuo sensed Su Que and demanded that he identify himself.
• Liu Zhanhuo identified himself as Emperor Liang Jing's personal guard and suspected Su Que had knocked out the True Profound Sect Daoists.
• Su Que attacked Liu Zhanhuo with Evil Fist Ice-Fire Seven Heavens, and Liu Zhanhuo mistook the ice-and-fire technique for the Blazing Ice Divine Skill.

Su Que defeated Liu Zhanhuo with the Evil Fist Ice-Fire Seven Heavens, captured him and a True Profound Sect Daoist, and questioned Liu about the imperial court’s Divine Intent Realm methods. Liu explained that the court’s treasury held many methods and that cultivation relied on Visualization Diagrams, but he could not draw the diagram he had memorized.

• Su Que’s icy and fiery punches overwhelmed Liu Zhanhuo’s Bloodfire Saber Qi and injured him internally.
• Su Que knocked Liu Zhanhuo unconscious, escaped the crater with him, and captured a fleeing True Profound Sect Daoist.
• Su Que collected several pills, recovered his clothes and mask, and carried the prisoners to a secluded cave.
• Su Que severed Liu Zhanhuo’s hand and foot tendons and demanded the imperial court’s Divine Intent Realm cultivation methods.
• Liu Zhanhuo described the categories of divine intent and explained that martial artists cultivated through Visualization Diagrams kept in the imperial martial arts treasury.

Su Que forced Liu Zhanhuo to draw twenty-four Divine Intent Realm Visualization Diagrams, questioned him about Emperor Liang Jing, then killed him and collected his Death Qi. He obtained the True Profound Sect’s Pill Recipes, gave them and Liu Zhanhuo’s blade to Old Daoist Qingxuan, and arrived to meet Li Xuanji about the Li Family’s cultivation method.

• Su Que made Liu Zhanhuo draw twenty-four Visualization Diagrams and learned how Divine Intent Realm martial artists stored divine intents.
• Liu Zhanhuo told Su Que that Emperor Liang Jing was still believed to be alive and may have advanced beyond the Divine Intent Realm, then Su Que killed him and absorbed his Death Qi.
• Su Que forced a True Profound Sect Daoist to write down thirty-six Pill Recipes, including five Emperor Liang Jing had consumed in the past forty years, and let the Daoist go.
• Su Que brought the Pill Recipes and Liu Zhanhuo’s Fire Pattern Blade to Old Daoist Qingxuan, who examined them and considered how to refine pills.
• Su Que went to the Sky Breaking Army residence, where Li Xuanji said he had brought the Li Family’s Divine Intent Realm cultivation method.

Su Que studied seven Divine Intent Realm manuals and discovered he could pursue multiple divine intents despite the risks described. He entered the Divine Intent Realm by merging a blazing-sky intent into his heart, then merged a volcano intent into it as well, greatly strengthening his fire force.

• Li Xuanji showed Su Que seven ancestral Divine Intent Realm manuals, whose twenty-seven-diagram sets Su Que quickly memorized.
• Su Que learned why most martial artists used only one set of diagrams and planned to seek scenery and celestial-phenomena intents for his organs and acupoints.
• Su Que visualized a blazing-sky diagram and successfully merged its fire intent into his heart, entering the Divine Intent Realm.
• Su Que merged a volcano's fire intent into his heart and found his connection to the power between heaven and earth deepen.
• Su Que tested his strengthened fire force by melting a large pit into the cave wall, while his heart remained unharmed.

Su Que strengthened his fire and ice powers by merging Divine Intent into his heart and right kidney, then cultivated the Demonic Blade and formed the Brain God. After reaching the third layer of Brain God, he began visualizing the Eye God.

• Su Que visualized the Tail Fire Tiger constellation and merged its fire Divine Intent into his heart, strengthening his fire force.
• Su Que visualized an iceberg and Thousand-Year Profound Ice, merging both into his right kidney and increasing its connection to the cold power of heaven and earth.
• Su Que cultivated the Demonic Blade in the woods for two hours, raising its mastery to 8%, then returned home for the night.
• The next day, Su Que merged Divine Intent from three Visualization Diagram sets into his brain and reached the third layer of Brain God.
• Su Que continued visualizing the Eye God after learning that it could sharpen eyesight and enable techniques that affected enemies through the eyes.

Su Que strengthened his Divine Intent and Sunflower Manual, then sought a Divine Intent Realm expert who could help him cultivate the final heaven of Evil Fist Ice-Fire Seven Heavens. After Li Xuanji directed him to Kong Sheng at Three Rocks Temple, Su Que raced to Hangcheng and entered the temple to find its abbot.

• Su Que visualized twin moons and fused more Divine Intent into his eyes, improving his vision and the force contained within them.
• Su Que cultivated the Sunflower Manual through the night, enhancing his body and spirit and gaining three years of Lifespan.
• Su Que decided he needed an expert skilled in both ice and fire true qi to complete the Seventh Heaven of Evil Fist Ice-Fire Seven Heavens.
• Li Xuanji told Su Que that Kong Sheng, a Divine Intent Realm monk at Three Rocks Temple, wielded the Great Buddha Temple's Blazing Ice Divine Skill.
• Su Que traveled to Hangcheng, slipped into Three Rocks Temple, and demanded to know where its abbot was.

Su Que went to Three Rocks Temple to use Kong Sheng’s Blazing Ice Divine Skill to cultivate the seventh heaven of Evil Fist Ice-Fire Seven Heavens. Kong Sheng attacked him with full force, but Su Que’s protections turned the ice-fire power into nourishment, and his cultivation progressed rapidly.

• Su Que subdued a young monk and learned where Kong Sheng practiced before knocking him unconscious.
• Kong Sheng recalled how a masked martial artist had injured him half a month earlier and mistook Su Que for that same opponent.
• Su Que challenged Kong Sheng, who attacked with the Blazing Ice Divine Skill after recognizing his build and voice.
• Su Que dodged Kong Sheng’s first ice-and-fire attack and judged its power suitable for cultivating the seventh heaven.
• Kong Sheng struck Su Que repeatedly at close range, but Su Que’s Golden Bell Shield blocked the palm force while the ice-fire power nourished him.
• Su Que’s Evil Fist Ice-Fire Seven Heavens advanced from six percent to eleven percent, while Kong Sheng grew furious that his attacks caused no injury.

Su Que let Kong Sheng and the monks of Three Rocks Temple attack him with the Blazing Ice Divine Skill to cultivate Evil Fist Ice-Fire Seven Heavens. After breaking through to the Seventh Heaven, Su Que advanced the technique into Dark Evil Fist Seven Heavens and considered seeking out the Eight Trigram Sect disciples who had stolen its manual.

• Kong Sheng poured Divine Intent into his Blazing Ice Divine Skill, while Su Que endured the attacks and grew stronger by reversing their damage.
• Su Que ordered Kong Sheng to have the monks who knew the Blazing Ice Divine Skill join the assault, and Kong Sheng forced them to obey by threatening them with pursuit by Great Buddha Temple and the imperial court.
• Kong Sheng tried to surprise Su Que with the Buddha Palm form Buddha Lamp First Appears, but Su Que interrupted it with a Seven Injuries Fist punch and ordered Kong Sheng to continue attacking.
• After about half an hour of attacks, Su Que completed the Seventh Heaven of Evil Fist Ice-Fire Seven Heavens, leaving Kong Sheng's ice-fire force unable to strengthen or harm him.
• Su Que comprehended Dark Evil Fist Seven Heavens, saw that its first stage required breaking Seven Heavens of Ice and Fire, and suspected the Eight Trigram Sect disciples might provide the challenge he needed.

Su Que learned that Yu Dahu was the masked fighter who had attacked Kong Sheng and arranged for Kong Sheng to help find him. When Yu Dahu appeared, Su Que killed Kong Sheng to silence him, then faced Yu Dahu in a battle to master the first heaven of Dark Evil Fist Seven Heavens.

• A young monk released a yellow bird to alert Yu Dahu that someone had challenged Kong Sheng.
• Yu Dahu learned of the challenge and headed for Three Rocks Temple, hoping to fight another Seven Heavens of Ice and Fire cultivator.
• Su Que questioned Kong Sheng about his earlier masked opponent, then planted a Life and Death Talisman and Myriad Poison True Qi in him, ordering him to find the man.
• Su Que caught Kong Sheng trying to seek help from Kong Wo and tortured him with Wedding Dress Divine Skill true qi.
• Yu Dahu appeared and asked whether Su Que had comprehended Dark Evil Fist Seven Heavens; Kong Sheng identified him as the man who had attacked him.
• Su Que crushed Kong Sheng's head, then challenged Yu Dahu to fight for mastery of the first heaven of Dark Evil Fist Seven Heavens.

Su Que fought Yu Dahu and broke through to the peak perfection of Dark Evil Fist Seven Heavens, gaining the ability to stop time for an instant. He defeated Yu Dahu but spared his life, intending to make him bring the Eight Trigram Sect’s Divine Intent Diagrams.

• Su Que and Yu Dahu exchanged fierce blows using Dark Evil Fist Seven Heavens, with Su Que’s Seven Injuries Fist force penetrating Yu Dahu’s arms.
• As Yu Dahu shifted to the Eight Trigram Palm and attacked with divine intent, Su Que broke through Dark Evil Fist Seven Heavens and gained the power to stop time briefly.
• Su Que halted Yu Dahu and the force of his technique for an instant, then struck his chest and shattered several ribs.
• Su Que pursued Yu Dahu and landed a second attack that made the ice and fire forces explode inside his body, leaving him gravely wounded.
• Su Que spared Yu Dahu’s life because he wanted the Eight Trigram Sect’s Divine Intent Diagrams.

Su Que captured Yu Dahu and sought a way to obtain the Eight Trigram Sect’s Divine Intent Diagram, then asked Li Xuanji about Daoists whose techniques could help him advance the Dark Evil Fist Seven Heavens. Li Xuanji revealed that True Profound Sect leader Xuan Xinzi cultivated the Nine Yin True Scripture, leaving Su Que to ask whether anyone else in the sect had learned it.

• Su Que learned that Yu Dahu’s senior brother, the Eight Trigram Sect master, had cultivated twenty Divine Intent Diagrams, and kept Yu Dahu alive to find a way to obtain the sect’s diagram.
• Su Que absorbed the Death Qi from Kong Sheng’s corpse, disposed of the body, and imprisoned Yu Dahu in a trapped cave near Jiannan Prefecture City.
• Su Que decided he needed to break a top-tier yin-and-soft Daoist technique to cultivate the second heaven of the Dark Evil Fist Seven Heavens, and went to ask the Sky Breaking Army for information about the True Profound Sect.
• Li Xuanji warned Su Que that the imperial court and great Aristocratic Clan sects were searching for him after his recent killings in the Central Plains.
• Li Xuanji told Su Que that Xuan Xinzi cultivated the Nine Yin True Scripture, the complete version of the Nine Yin Deficiency, and Su Que asked whether any other True Profound Sect Daoist had learned it.

Su Que cultivated the Muscle God, learned where to find Xuan Xinzi’s third disciple, and improved his Heavenly Crippling Foot and Sunflower Manual. After hearing that powerful factions were searching for him, he prepared to test his greatly enhanced lightness skill.

• Su Que left Yu Dahu food and continued pressing him to find a way to obtain the Eight Trigram Sect’s Divine Intent Diagram.
• Su Que cultivated the Muscle God by visualizing three Divine Intent Diagrams, reaching Muscle God Level Three.
• Li Xuanji reported that Xuan Xinzi’s third disciple, Luo Guanjī, was outside Tianbao Palace in Luocheng, and warned Su Que that factions were hunting him after Kong Sheng’s disappearance.
• Su Que decided to improve his movement skills before traveling to the Central Plains and collected pills from Purple Sun Temple.
• Su Que advanced Heavenly Crippling Foot to Level 9 and the Sunflower Manual to its ninth realm, greatly improving his lightness skill.
• Su Que swept out of his mountain cave to test how much faster he had become.

Su Que practiced the sixth and seventh forms of the Heavenly Crippling Foot, then learned that Xuan Xinzi’s disciple Luo Guanjī had been sailing from storm-battered Luocheng amid reports of strange rosy light offshore. He reached the city and met Li Xuanji’s scout at a hidden medical clinic to learn more about Luo Guanjī’s activities.

• Su Que tested Jade and Stone Burn Together, blasting huge craters into the ground, then practiced Ten Thousand Calamities Unrecoverable with a storm of rapid kicks.
• After a meal, Su Que asked Li Xuanji about Xuan Xinzi’s disciples, and Li Xuanji reported that Luo Guanjī had stayed in Luocheng and repeatedly sailed out during fierce storms.
• Su Que traveled through the night to Luocheng, where he found the city beset by wind and rain but saw no ships or rosy light offshore.
• Su Que slipped over the city wall and found Li Xuanji’s scouts’ medical clinic, using a passphrase to contact a trusted scout inside.
• The scout asked whether Su Que had come to learn about Luo Guanjī’s whereabouts and activities, and Su Que confirmed it.

Su Que investigated the rumored overseas opportunity and found a storm centered over an underwater volcano, where he used the immense forces to cultivate his Variant Golden Bell Shield. After breaking through to Level 8, he turned toward the tornado, hoping its greater power would push the technique even further.

• Su Que learned that Luo Guanjī and other martial artists had been searching the sea for a hidden opportunity, while Gu Yulong's arrival had stopped their expeditions.
• Su Que chose to investigate the sea himself, searched several islands, and killed a shark whose Death Qi raised his Nine Yin Cold Corpse Claw mastery.
• Su Que swam into the storm and found a powerful vortex above an erupting underwater volcano.
• Su Que endured the vortex's force with his Variant Golden Bell Shield and repeatedly restored it, rapidly increasing its cultivation progress.
• Su Que's Variant Golden Bell Shield broke through to Level 8, Reached the Pinnacle 1%, and he decided to cultivate further using the tornado's power.

Su Que tempered his Variant Golden Bell Shield in the storm until it broke through to Level 9, but found no opportunity at the storm’s center. He abducted Luo Guanji from the Grand Cultivator Inn, tested whether breaking his Nine Yin True Scripture would improve the Dark Evil Fist Seven Heavens, then returned to the city to wait for Gu Yulong’s party.

• Su Que entered the tornado and endured its wind and lightning, raising the Variant Golden Bell Shield to Level 9, World-Shocking 1%.
• Su Que searched the storm and sea for a hidden opportunity, found nothing, and went to the Grand Cultivator Inn to look for Luo Guanji.
• Su Que questioned an attendant and the bookkeeper to learn Luo Guanji’s room, then knocked Luo Guanji unconscious and carried him out of the city.
• Luo Guanji attacked Su Que with the Nine Yin True Scripture, but his strikes did not improve Su Que’s Dark Evil Fist Seven Heavens.
• Su Que struck Luo Guanji with twenty percent of his power, raising the Dark Evil Fist Seven Heavens to Pinnacle Perfection 2%, then left him and returned to the city to await Gu Yulong’s party.