Chapter Summaries

Su Que cultivated the Demonic Blade to its third layer in a single day, discovering that it produced demonic qi and that he could quickly derive the technique’s later layers. After three days, he returned to Fan Gushan, who mistook Su Que’s resistance to the demonic qi for an Innate Demonic Lord physique and gave him the second and third layers, still interwoven with the Blood Moving Technique.

• Su Que noticed that Fan Gushan’s first layer combined the Demonic Blade with the Blood Moving Technique, then separated the methods and cultivated the Demonic Blade on its own.
• Su Que discovered that the Demonic Blade’s side effects could be reversed, producing clearer thoughts, a stronger spirit, and demonic qi that increased his power.
• Su Que derived the second and third layers himself, reached Initial Glimpse 3% in the Demonic Blade, and decided to wait three days before asking Fan Gushan for more.
• Su Que tested the Blood Moving Technique and found that it increased his blood’s vitality and slightly strengthened his physique, then stopped when he reached the end of the method he knew.
• Fan Gushan asked Su Que about his cultivation and visions; believing Su Que had the physique of an Innate Demonic Lord, he taught him the second and third layers, which Su Que recognized still included the Blood Moving Technique.

Su Que traveled with Fan Gushan to the Turbid World Demonic Pool, believing he was going there to deepen his demonic cultivation while remaining wary of Fan Gushan’s hidden intentions. They reached the concealed cave, where Fan Gushan showed him the pool and the Demonic Blade’s carved intent, setting the trap for his blood transfer in motion.

• Su Que told Fan Gushan he had mastered the third layer of the Demon Transformation Secret Method, and Fan Gushan explained that he needed the Turbid World Demonic Pool to form a demonic heart.
• Su Que left to arrange his affairs, wrote Su Jing a note saying he would be away for about a month, and returned to the Sky Breaking Army residence to depart with Fan Gushan.
• Su Que and Fan Gushan rode for fifteen days to Yellow Dragon Province, with Su Que continuing to cultivate on the journey.
• Fan Gushan led Su Que from an inn into a hidden mountain cave containing a black, foul-smelling pool.
• Fan Gushan showed Su Que the carved character “Demon,” claiming it recorded the Demonic Blade’s art and inviting him to experience its intent.

Su Que learned the Demonic Blade from the carved character and entered the Turbid World Demonic Pool, where Fan Gushan tried to steal his blood. The reversed Blood Moving Technique drained Fan Gushan’s Xuanwu Blood into Su Que, and Su Que killed him after a fierce fight.

• Su Que traced the character "Demon," comprehended the Demonic Blade, and advanced it to Entry Level.
• Fan Gushan told Su Que how to enter the Turbid World Demonic Pool, where Su Que circulated the Demon Transformation Secret Method and rapidly improved his Demonic Blade.
• Fan Gushan activated the Blood Moving Technique to steal Su Que’s blood, but the reversed side effect drained nearly all of Fan Gushan’s Xuanwu Blood into Su Que instead.
• Su Que absorbed the blood and grew stronger as Fan Gushan attacked him in the pool and revealed his monstrous face.
• Su Que and Fan Gushan fought with the Demonic Blade, and Su Que split Fan Gushan from shoulder to abdomen, killing him.

Su Que killed Fan Gushan, gained a dramatic boost to his body and attributes, and completed the Turbid World Demonic Pool’s role in forging his demonic heart. After concealing the cave and returning to Jiannan Prefecture City, he used up his pills and set out to secure new medicinal supplies, planning to clear bandits from the route himself.

• Su Que dissolved Fan Gushan’s corpse, discovered that his blood had increased his lifespan and talent, then resumed cultivating in the Turbid World Demonic Pool.
• As the pool water filled the character “Demon,” Su Que’s Demonic Blade mastery rose to Peak Mastery, and he concluded that further progress required stirring his demonic nature through deeds and combat.
• Su Que collected pool water, destroyed the cave’s demonic character and pool platform, and cleared away traces of himself and Fan Gushan.
• Su Que returned to Jiannan Prefecture City, concealed Fan Gushan’s belongings and horses, and checked that Su Jing was unharmed.
• After consuming his remaining pills, Su Que discovered that Fan Gushan’s blood had improved his ability to absorb them, though overuse still weakened their effects.
• Su Que collected pills from Old Daoist Qingxuan and headed to the Sky Breaking Army’s residence to arrange a medicine convoy, planning to defeat anyone who tried to rob it.

Su Que arranged a disguised medicinal-herb transport team with Qiu Yu and set out with Sky Breaking Army martial artists, using the journey to cultivate. After practicing the Seven Injuries Fist and deciding he needed a real blade for the Demonic Blade, he reached a city and inspected a saber called the Flying Snow Bright Silver Saber.

• Su Que asked Qiu Yu to assemble a team with two Meridian Opening Realm martial artists and arranged to leave from Jiannan Prefecture City the next morning.
• Su Que told Su Jing he was traveling to the Central Plains, accepted the dagger she offered, and secretly left it behind to protect his identity.
• Su Que departed with the Sky Breaking Army team and practiced the Seven Injuries Fist in a forest, advancing its proficiency while his organs grew stronger.
• Su Que asked Little Chen to guide the group to a great city so he could buy a blade, then entered the city and visited its largest weapons shop.
• The blacksmith showed Su Que the Flying Snow Bright Silver Saber, whose bright blade hummed as it left its sheath.

Su Que tested the Demonic Blade with a newly purchased saber, broke it, and continued practicing with his hands as blades while traveling toward the Central Plains. After the convoy reached its first herb-purchasing stop, the Sunflower Manual advanced to the eighth realm, and Su Que noticed that other buyers seemed to belong to the same sect or Aristocratic Clan.

• Su Que bought a Flying Snow Bright Silver Saber for three thousand taels and tested it outside a city, where the Demonic Blade shattered it after he cut down much of a forest.
• Su Que practiced the Demonic Blade with saber palms, raising it to Peak Mastery, Realm 5, 27%.
• Su Que traveled with the Sky Breaking Army toward the Central Plains, where they slaughtered three groups of petty highway robbers along the way.
• Su Que cultivated the Sunflower Manual during the journey and broke through to the eighth realm after the convoy reached its first herb-purchasing manor.
• Su Que noticed that the carriages buying herbs at the manor bore matching clothes and wondered whether robbers targeted wandering outsiders instead of established sects and Aristocratic Clans.

Su Que protected the medicinal convoy from an ambush, killed thirteen robbers, and forced the survivor to identify Phoenix Court Manor as their faction. He sent the Sky Breaking Army martial artists away and headed with the captive toward the manor to confront its lord, Gu Jingyan.

• Su Que practiced the Variant Golden Bell Shield as the convoy finished buying medicinal ingredients and turned back toward Jiannan Prefecture.
• Fourteen armed men ambushed the convoy near a mountain, and Su Que killed thirteen of them with the Demonic Blade.
• Su Que used the Nine Yin Cold Corpse Claw to frighten the surviving robber into revealing that he belonged to Phoenix Court Manor and that Gu Jingyan led it.
• The captive explained that an unknown messenger had told Phoenix Court Manor about the medicine, and that Gu Jingyan was in the Gang Condensation Realm.
• Su Que ordered the captive to lead him to Phoenix Court Manor, dismissed the Sky Breaking Army martial artists near a city, and continued toward the manor.

Su Que stormed Phoenix Court Manor, killed Gu Jingyan after learning that the Ou Family’s collateral branch had arranged the medicinal herb robbery, and gathered information about the branch and nearby powers. Rather than destroy the Ou Family branch and risk another force taking over its territory, he began looking for a way to control it.

• Su Que killed a guide who refused to reveal Gu Jingyan’s whereabouts, then climbed Phoenix Ridge and questioned a sentry who pointed him toward the manor.
• Gu Jingyan prepared the manor’s defenses and took up the Hundred Birds Facing Phoenix Spear after becoming suspicious that his men had not returned.
• Su Que entered the feast, killed the bandits who attacked him, shattered Gu Jingyan’s spear, and forced him to reveal that the Ou Family’s collateral branch had supplied the information for the robbery.
• Gu Jingyan told Su Que that the branch leader could condense five zhang of Gang Qi and revealed the branch’s location before Su Que killed him.
• Su Que met with the Sky Breaking Army martial artists, learned about the Ou Family branch and other nearby forces, and decided that controlling the branch would be safer than destroying it.
• Su Que sent a martial artist to ask Old Daoist Qingxuan about timed poison and dispatched five others to search for people or forces skilled in martial arts that could control others.

Su Que learned that Wu Xingkong controlled Chuyun Prefecture’s sects with the Life and Death Talisman and planned to confront him. After Ou Qinghe tracked the caravan, Su Que killed him, learned that the Ou Family’s head knew six forms of the Heavenly Crippling Foot, and set off for the Chuyun Army camp.

• Su Que cultivated the Wedding Dress Divine Skill and learned from a Sky Breaking Army martial artist about Wu Xingkong and the Life and Death Talisman.
• Two Ou Family branch members found the corpses at Phoenix Court Manor and sent word to the family.
• Ou Qinghe tracked Su Que’s caravan to an inn, but Su Que wounded him, tortured him for information, and learned the Ou Family branch had a Heavenly Crippling Foot manual.
• Su Que killed Ou Qinghe, destroyed his corpse, and moved the caravan to another city while the Sky Breaking Army martial artists erased its tracks.
• Su Que flew toward the Chuyun Army camp at night to find Wu Xingkong and force him to reveal the Life and Death Talisman.

Su Que infiltrated the Chuyun Army camp and learned that Wu Xingkong was meeting faction leaders at Le Qing Tower. He attacked Wu Xingkong there, defeated him, and carried him away to learn how to use the Life and Death Talisman.

• Su Que questioned two Chuyun Army guards and a camp officer, who revealed that Wu Xingkong was at Le Qing Tower meeting Chuyun Prefecture’s faction leaders.
• Su Que entered Le Qing Tower and found Wu Xingkong collecting tribute and warning the faction leaders that he controlled their Life and Death Talismans.
• Su Que attacked Wu Xingkong with the Demonic Blade, while Wu Xingkong defended himself with Ice True Qi.
• Wu Xingkong urged the faction leaders to help him, but Su Que promised to make him reveal how the Life and Death Talisman worked, causing them to hesitate.
• Su Que severed Wu Xingkong’s tendons, seized him, and escaped through the reception hall wall as the faction members pursued them.

Su Que tortured Wu Xingkong into teaching him how to plant and remove the Life and Death Talisman, tested both methods, and killed him. Meanwhile, the factions searched Wu Xingkong’s residence for his manual, where their suspicion of Head Chen ended in a violent discovery.

• Su Que forced Wu Xingkong to explain how to use and remove the Life and Death Talisman, then made ice flakes with his Nine Yin Cold Corpse Claw and tested planting and removing the talisman on him.
• Su Que snapped Wu Xingkong’s neck, absorbed his Death Qi, and corroded his corpse with the Myriad Poisons Heart Sutra.
• The factions’ subordinates searched Chuyun Prefecture City for Su Que, who learned their leaders were gathered at Le Qing Tower and headed there.
• The leaders and deputies searched Wu Xingkong’s residence, found a hidden stone chamber, and failed to find the manual among its books and bamboo slips.
• The factions accused Head Chen of taking the manual and attacked him; after he fell, a gang chief searched him and found three martial arts manuals, including one on using and removing the Life and Death Talisman.

Su Que seized the Life and Death Talisman manual, forced the faction leaders to serve him, and set out to control the Ou Family branch and the medicinal transport route. Meanwhile, Ou Jing tracked Su Que’s convoy, captured its Sky Breaking Army guards, and planned to use them as bait and hostages.

• Su Que stormed the stone chamber and used the Seven Injuries Fist to overwhelm the faction leaders without killing them.
• Su Que took the Life and Death Talisman manual, learned the factions’ locations and talisman flare-up times, and ordered them to work for him and avoid fighting.
• Su Que collected Wu Xingkong’s pill recipes and headed toward the Ou Family branch to place Life and Death Talismans on its head and the next imperial commander.
• Ou Jing searched for his missing son Ou Qinghe with his younger brother and nephew, eventually tracing Su Que’s convoy to an inn.
• Ou Jing captured the Sky Breaking Army guards and ordered them and the medicinal ingredients taken to the Ou Family as bait and hostages for Su Que.

Su Que searched the Ou Family estate for the Heavenly Crippling Foot manual, rescued the captured Sky Breaking Army martial artists, and attacked Ou Jing after discovering his secret vault. He left Ou Jing poisoned and wounded, and used him to block a reckless kick from Ou Jing’s grandson as the Ou Family gathered around.

• Su Que questioned Ou Jing’s grandson and son, searched Ou Jing’s study and cultivation room, and found no Heavenly Crippling Foot manual.
• Ou Jing returned with the captured convoy and ordered the Sky Breaking Army martial artists imprisoned while the Ou Family lured their powerful protector to the estate.
• Su Que knocked out the guards escorting the captives, cut the Sky Breaking Army martial artists free, and told them to escape and wait nearby.
• Ou Jing opened the secret vault beneath his cultivation room, but Su Que burst in and attacked him with the Myriad Poison True Qi and Demonic Blade.
• Su Que wounded Ou Jing with blade Gang Qi and blood-formed ice shards, leaving him poisoned and incapacitated as Ou Family members rushed to the scene.
• Ou Jing’s grandson Xian'er attacked Su Que with the Heavenly Crippling Foot, and Su Que used Ou Jing to take the blow, causing him to cough up blood.

Su Que forced Ou Jing and the Ou Family to supply medicinal ingredients after taking their Heavenly Crippling Foot manual and pill recipes. He returned to Jiannan Prefecture City with the Sky Breaking Army, where Old Daoist Qingxuan identified three pill recipes that could substitute for Fire Spirit Pills.

• Su Que searched the Ou Family’s hidden vault, took the five-form Heavenly Crippling Foot manual and pill recipes, and killed five Ou Family members who tried to seize his companions.
• Su Que compelled Ou Jing to arrange regular deliveries of Fire Spirit Pill ingredients and left with the Sky Breaking Army convoy.
• Ou Jing learned Wu Xingkong had disappeared and suspected the Rakshasa-masked man had killed him, then returned to his family as Ou Caixian proposed blaming another Ou Family branch for the leaked manual.
• Su Que read the manual during the journey south and learned the names of the third, fourth, and fifth forms of Heavenly Crippling Foot.
• After eight days, Su Que and the Sky Breaking Army reached Jiannan Prefecture City, where Old Daoist Qingxuan selected three pill recipes as potential Fire Spirit Pill substitutes.

Su Que collected Fire Spirit Pills and used them to advance his Wedding Dress Divine Skill, then reached five-zhang Gang Qi and practiced shaping it. He also cultivated the Heavenly Crippling Foot to peak perfection, learned its fourth move, and prepared to test the fifth.

• Su Que returned home and spoke with Su Jing, who told him about rare methods and resources that could change a person's martial aptitude.
• Three days later, Su Que collected a gourd of Fire Spirit Pills and used them to raise his Wedding Dress Divine Skill by two percent.
• Su Que condensed five-zhang Gang Qi, carved a deep mark through a mountain wall, and practiced forming his Gang Qi into blades, fists, claws, and needles.
• Su Que cultivated the Heavenly Crippling Foot, reversing its dangerous side effect and advancing it to Level 8 Peak Perfection.
• Su Que mastered the fourth move, Blood Floods the Mountains and Rivers, and pulverized a forest before preparing to perform the fifth move.

Su Que mastered the fifth form of Heavenly Crippling Foot and continued cultivating until he discovered that the Wedding Dress Divine Skill could summon a thousand-armed, weapon-wielding Dharma manifestation. He changed its face to match his rakshasa mask, then left the cave to test its power.

• Su Que used Heaven Collapse Earth Shatter to fly through the air and strike the ground with a giant azure foot, then concealed the footprints so the Ou Family would not learn he had mastered its martial art.
• Over the next three months, Su Que practiced martial arts and treated those afflicted by Life and Death Talismans in exchange for medicinal ingredients.
• Su Que condensed his Gang Qi from five zhang nine chi to six zhang, then resumed cultivating the Wedding Dress Divine Skill.
• Su Que released the force produced by the Wedding Dress Divine Skill together with his Gang Qi and manifested a thousand-armed figure holding weapons of slaughter.
• Su Que realized that the figure reflected his knowledge and state of mind, changed its face to match his rakshasa mask, and left the cave to test its power.

Su Que improved the Seven Injuries Fist, strengthening his internal organs and increasing his ability to absorb pills, then arranged for Ou Jing to gather ingredients for a new pill recipe. Meanwhile, Ou Lusheng arrived from the Ou Family main branch to investigate the Rakshasa-masked man, and Ou Bai'an pointed him toward the Sky Breaking Army.

• Su Que tested the Wedding Dress Divine Skill’s enhanced power against a cliff and began working out how to incorporate it and other martial arts into the Seven Injuries Fist.
• After five days of experimentation, Su Que created a new Seven Injuries Fist method that strengthened his five viscera and pulverized the insides of nearby trees with invisible force.
• Su Que devoted himself to cultivating the improved fist, raised his pill capacity to fifteen Fire Spirit Pills a day, and sent Ou Jing a request for ingredients for another pill recipe.
• Ou Jing assigned his grandson Ou Caixian to gather the requested ingredients, while explaining that the Ou Family main branch was occupied by political and clan conflicts.
• Ou Lusheng, the sixth son of the Ou Family main branch’s head, visited the Jiannan branch and asked Ou Bai'an about the Rakshasa-masked man who had learned the Six Forms Heavenly Crippling Foot.
• Ou Bai'an suggested that the mysterious man might be an expert in the Sky Breaking Army, giving Ou Lusheng a lead.

Ou Lusheng and Ou Bai'an went to the Sky Breaking Army camp seeking the person who wore a Rakshasa Mask, but Su Que ambushed Ou Lusheng before he could attack the soldiers. Su Que defeated him and left him alive to interrogate about the Ou Family and Heavenly Crippling Foot.

• Ou Bai'an told Ou Lusheng that the Sky Breaking Army might serve the powerful person they were seeking and offered to lead him to its camp.
• Su Que spotted Ou Bai'an and Ou Lusheng leaving the city, recognized the old man, and followed them into the Sky Breaking Army camp.
• Ou Lusheng demanded that the camp summon commander Li Xuanji, then prepared to attack after the general ordered the soldiers to surround them.
• Su Que suddenly struck Ou Lusheng from behind, breaking his protective Gang Qi and poisoning him with Myriad Poison True Qi.
• Ou Lusheng used Heavenly Crippling Foot's Fifth Form against Su Que, but Su Que shattered the foot-shaped Gang Qi with Seven Injuries Fist.
• Su Que battered Ou Lusheng and drove him into the ground, then kept him alive because he wanted to question him about the Ou Family and Heavenly Crippling Foot.

Su Que interrogated and killed Ou Lusheng, learning about mythical beast blood and the Heavenly Crippling Foot, then punished Ou Jing for summoning the Ou Family main branch. He returned to cultivating the Seven Injuries Fist, anticipating that stronger members of the Ou Family would come after him.

• Su Que captured Ou Lusheng, learned he was the Ou Family head's sixth son, and questioned him about mythical beast flesh and blood, Beast-Possessed people, and the Heavenly Crippling Foot.
• Ou Lusheng revealed that his family raised an impure Xuanwu and that the Liang Kingdom imperial court kept pureblood mythical beasts; Su Que killed him, absorbed his Death Qi, and learned the sixth and seventh forms of Heavenly Crippling Foot.
• Su Que went to the Ou Family branch estate and confronted Ou Jing for writing to the main branch, tormenting him with the Life and Death Talisman until he begged for mercy.
• Su Que removed the stronger talisman, warned Ou Jing to serve him, and left the Ou Family branch alive so its members would continue managing its territories and businesses.
• Su Que returned toward Jiannan Prefecture City, worried that the Ou Family main branch would send a stronger pursuer, then trained the Seven Injuries Fist, which stood at 98% of Level 8 Peak Perfection.

Su Que broke through the Seven Injuries Fist and the Wedding Dress Divine Skill, then tested their increased power by demolishing a mountain wall and setting a forest ablaze. The chapter ended with him wondering whether advanced martial arts could unleash thunderfire against opponents.

• Su Que advanced the Seven Injuries Fist to Level 9, Astonishing, and destroyed trees and part of a mountain wall with its force.
• Su Que cultivated the Wedding Dress Divine Skill in his cave, using pills as his progress approached a breakthrough.
• After about half a month, Su Que advanced the Wedding Dress Divine Skill to Level 9, Astonishing, and felt its True Qi grow more violent with thunderfire.
• Su Que tested the new skill by blasting a huge, charred pit into a mountain wall while his protective Gang Qi shattered rubble before it reached him.
• Su Que struck a forest with the Wedding Dress Divine Skill, causing the trees to burst into flames, and considered its potential to unleash thunderfire.