Chapter Summaries

Jiang Fan killed two soldiers and their captain after they tried to intimidate him at an inn in Taiping Town. When a major confronted him, Jiang Fan swiftly sent him crashing into the lobby, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Jiang Fan found the two soldiers dead and condemned the captain for killing them, while the inn’s patrons feared the consequences.
• Jiang Fan used an invisible force to pin the captain down and demanded to know his unit and why he had abandoned the defensive line during a sandstorm.
• The captain threatened Jiang Fan, who killed him with a downward press of his palm.
• The major realized Jiang Fan might be stronger than Level Four and flew upstairs to attack him.
• The major began to accuse Jiang Fan, but a loud bang sent him crashing into the lobby floor.

After defeating Shen Hui, Jiang Fan ordered him to summon Taiping Pass’s highest commander before the sandstorm subsided. Shen Hui reported back to his commander, who decided to take soldiers to capture Jiang Fan during the storm.

• Jiang Fan spared the badly injured Shen Hui and ordered him to bring Taiping Pass’s highest commander to meet him before the sandstorm subsided.
• Shen Hui escaped through the sandstorm and identified himself to the soldiers guarding Taiping Pass.
• Shen Hui reached the Third Corps’ command office and reported Jiang Fan’s demand to the balding commander.
• Shen Hui told the commander that Jiang Fan carried a million purple banknotes and urged him to seize the young man.
• The commander decided to take soldiers out immediately and capture Jiang Fan while the sandstorm concealed their actions.

Yang Shuwen and Major Shen Hui postponed their plan to pursue Jiang Fan after Taiping Pass headquarters summoned its officers. Lin Hetong revealed that General Jiang was passing through the pass, leaving the officers ordered to maintain discipline and prepare for his arrival.

• Yang Shuwen agreed to Shen Hui's proposal to pursue Jiang Fan, but a headquarters order called him to an emergency meeting.
• Yang Shuwen told Shen Hui to postpone the matter, arguing that Jiang Fan's trail could be followed later.
• All eighty-one battalion-level officers gathered at the Supreme Command Post despite the nighttime sandstorm.
• Lin Hetong announced that General Jiang, a senior Military Commission official, was traveling through Taiping Pass and ordered every camp to remain at its post.
• Shen Hui asked Yang Shuwen what to do, and Yang Shuwen told him to wait until the situation settled.

After the sandstorm ended, Jiang Fan found that the Taiping Pass commander and the surviving major had not come after him for killing soldiers. He questioned the inn's landlady about the frontier and learned that the major wielded great influence, leaving her warning Jiang Fan to leave Taiping Town before the troops tracked him down.

• Jiang Fan woke to find the sandstorm over and saw the busy street covered in sand.
• Jiang Fan noticed that the inn staff had cleaned up the previous night's corpses and damage, while the other guests kept their distance from him.
• Jiang Fan asked the landlady about nearby towns, routes beyond the Ten Thousand Beasts Border Defense Great Wall, and the troops at Taiping Pass.
• The landlady refused to discuss the stationed soldiers but guessed that Jiang Fan planned to hunt exotic beasts beyond the Great Wall.
• The landlady warned Jiang Fan that the escaped major could wield great influence and urged him to leave Taiping Town before the troops tracked him down.
• Jiang Fan asked whether the troops had committed many wrongs in town, but the landlady hesitated, so he dropped the question.

Jiang Fan left Taiping Town to investigate Jiang Qinian’s whereabouts after giving the landlady money and a message stone. Lin Hetong arrived at Taiping Inn with soldiers and asked whether it had hosted a young man.

• Jiang Fan paid the landlady for the damage and gave her a message stone to alert him if anyone came looking for him.
• Jiang Fan left Taiping Town, and Old Huang led several adventurers after him despite warnings about his strength.
• A soldier told Lin Hetong that the 6th Corps, 1st Battalion had found Jiang Fan’s whereabouts at Taiping Inn.
• Lin Hetong went to Taiping Inn with soldiers and asked the landlady whether a young man had stayed there.

Lin Hetong, the highest commander of Taiping Pass, learned that Jiang Fan had left the pass and discovered the young man was Vice Chief Jiang of the Military Supervision Department. Jiang Fan ordered Lin Hetong to purge the garrison within three days, and Lin Hetong began investigating the abuses that had provoked him.

• Lin Hetong questioned the Taiping Inn landlady about the young man who had left for beyond the Ten Thousand Beasts Border Defense Great Wall.
• After the landlady crushed Jiang Fan's stone, Jiang Fan spoke from the void and Lin Hetong recognized him as Vice Chief Jiang, saluting and reporting for duty.
• Jiang Fan told Lin Hetong to investigate what had happened the previous night and purge Taiping Pass's garrison within three days, then report to the Military Supervision Department.
• Once Jiang Fan had left, Lin Hetong questioned the landlady and learned Jiang Fan had been robbed by adventurers and bullied by the garrison.
• Lin Hetong ordered his lieutenant colonel to control those at the inn, identify the officers involved, and arrest them as soon as they were found.

Lin Hetong confronted Yang Shuwen and Shen Hui over the violence at Taiping Inn and revealed that Jiang Fan could destroy Taiping Pass’s army with ease. After realizing Jiang Fan’s connection to General Jiang, Lin Hetong suspended the two officers and ordered a sweeping crackdown on misconduct.

• Lin Hetong identified Shen Hui as a battalion commander and summoned him and Yang Shuwen to Taiping Inn.
• Yang Shuwen recounted that a young man had killed three adventurers and three border-defense soldiers, while Shen Hui claimed he had fought the young man to a stalemate.
• Lin Hetong rejected Shen Hui’s account and warned that Jiang Fan could annihilate the soldiers at Taiping Pass with a flick of his finger.
• Yang Shuwen and Shen Hui realized Jiang Fan was connected to General Jiang and collapsed in fear.
• Lin Hetong suspended Yang Shuwen and Shen Hui, ordered inspections and anonymous reports, and demanded that military misconduct be rooted out within three days.

After leaving Taiping Pass, Jiang Fan explored the barren land beyond the Ten Thousand Beasts Border Defense Great Wall and began hunting Exotic Beasts to strengthen himself. He flew toward the distant mountains, planning to search for Jiang Qinian while testing techniques left by the Xiao Family Ancestor.

• After Lin Hetong and the military forces left Taiping Inn, the adventurers discussed Jiang Fan’s authority and were relieved they had not attacked him.
• Jiang Fan walked beyond Taiping Pass and observed the harsh, barren landscape where the frontier kingdoms had once stood.
• Unable to determine which direction Jiang Qinian had taken, Jiang Fan chose to fly straight ahead and search as he traveled.
• Jiang Fan killed waves of Exotic Beasts, absorbed their Life Energy, and concluded that hunting them increased his qi and blood faster than ordinary cultivation.
• Jiang Fan decided to practice the spatial and temporal attack techniques left by the Xiao Family Ancestor and formed a stretch of space before him.

Jiang Fan mastered Spatial Cut and tested its silent, long-range attacks on exotic beasts beyond the border pass. After he moved on, Old Huang and his men scavenged the remains, planning to return with a truck and claim the rest.

• Jiang Fan used Spatial Cut to sever an exotic beast's tail and kill several others without making a sound.
• Jiang Fan compared Spatial Cut with his earlier Spatial Flash attacks and began testing the limits of the space he controlled.
• Old Huang told his men they had followed Jiang Fan to scavenge exotic beast remains rather than attack him, and ordered them to wait until he moved farther away.
• After Jiang Fan disappeared from sight, Old Huang and his men reached the battlefield and found many dead beasts and scattered remains.
• Old Huang ordered the group to carry what they could back to the exotic beast market and planned to return with a truck for the rest.

Rumors that Old Huang’s group had returned with mutilated exotic beasts led adventurers to realize the remains had been left outside Taiping Pass. The scavenging crowd fought over the corpses and trucks, and news that even ordinary people could collect valuable remains sent Taiping Town into a frenzy.

• Adventurers at Taiping Inn inferred that Old Huang’s group had collected the remains of beasts hunted by the young man, and they rushed toward Taiping Pass.
• The conical-hat adventurer stayed behind, judging that the crowded scavenging would be dangerous.
• Adventurers found the mountain hollow covered with exotic-beast remains and charged in to collect them.
• Old Huang told his group to keep loading their truck, but scavengers fought over vehicles and remains, turning the hollow into a battlefield.
• After news spread that ordinary people could collect the remains too, people across Taiping Town rushed toward the pass.

Jiang Fan hunted exotic beasts beyond Taiping Pass, grew stronger through cultivation and Martial Arts Space challenges, and discovered a space bead that could store a huge beast. After traveling hundreds of kilometers across the barren land, he spotted a fire ahead and wondered who else could be there.

• Lin Hetong assumed Jiang Fan had killed the exotic beasts outside Taiping Pass and ordered the military to ban adventurers from taking or selling their remains.
• A soldier told angry adventurers that the beasts had been slain by the Military Commission Commander, a Level 8 powerhouse, shocking the crowd and the proprietress.
• Jiang Fan continued hunting and practicing Spatial Cut and Time Stagnation, lowering the flow of time to 40% of normal speed.
• After three days, Jiang Fan mastered a space technique that let him store a three-zhang-tall exotic beast inside a bead.
• Jiang Fan traveled hundreds of kilometers beyond Taiping Pass, then spotted firelight two kilometers ahead and wondered who was there.

Jiang Fan reached a distant continent and encountered three siblings from a tribe who were hunting a Phantom Night Charm Deer to obtain medicine for their sick mother. After joining their camp, he learned that the Alliance used Huaxia and faced questions about his origins and journey through the mountains.

• Jiang Fan spotted three blond-haired, blue-eyed hunters camped in the mountains and listened as the siblings discussed hunting a Phantom Night Charm Deer for medicine to cure their mother.
• Jiang Fan approached the camp, and the eldest brother mistook him for a mutated beast before recognizing him as human and identifying his speech as the Alliance's language.
• Jiang Fan claimed to come from another faction and asked to rest by the fire, and the eldest brother welcomed him and shared beast meat.
• Jiang Fan struggled to chew the tough, salty meat, then heard the eldest brother ask where he came from and how he had survived the Tianshan Mountains.

Jiang Fan met Tak, Will, and Elisa of the Wuganmole Tribe and learned that their isolated society traded exotic beasts for basic medicine. Tak described the powerful Guardian Alliance, whose language was Huaxia, leaving Jiang Fan wondering whether it was connected to Jiang Qinian.

• Jiang Fan told the three siblings he had traveled from Huaxia, but they doubted his claim that he had crossed hundreds of kilometers through the mountains.
• Elisa introduced herself and her brothers, Tak and Will, and explained they were hunting a Phantom Night Charm Deer to obtain medicine for their mother.
• Tak said their mother developed a fever and headache after being caught in a downpour, and he described trading for bitter, sugar-coated pills.
• Tak explained that the siblings belonged to the Wuganmole Tribe on the Yadan Plains, where tribespeople aspired to join the Guardian Alliance and learned its language.
• Jiang Fan realized the Alliance language was Huaxia and wondered whether the Guardian Alliance was connected to Jiang Qinian.

Jiang Fan stayed with Tak, Will, and Elisa while they waited for the Phantom Night Charm Deer, secretly protecting their camp from other savage beasts with his Spiritual Domain. Just before dawn, the deer arrived and used its strange power to make Will and Tak fall asleep, leaving them helpless.

• Tak invited Jiang Fan to stay with the group overnight and offered to guide him toward the Yadan Plains the next morning.
• Jiang Fan rested beside Elisa and spread his perception across the area, silently killing savage beasts that approached the camp.
• Tak and Will wondered why no savage beasts had attacked during the night, unaware that Jiang Fan had protected them.
• The Phantom Night Charm Deer entered Jiang Fan's Spiritual Domain just before dawn, and Jiang Fan opened a gap so it could reach the campfire.
• The deer made Will fall asleep, then overwhelmed Tak with drowsiness until he collapsed beside his brother.

Jiang Fan killed the Phantom Night Charm Deer after discovering its antlers produced a weak, Spiritual Power-like substance that could induce sleep. Tak, Will, and Elisa mistakenly credited their hunt and safe return to Jiang Fan as their lucky star, and the group reached the Wuganmole Tribe without being attacked.

• Jiang Fan traced the deer’s sleep-inducing power to its antlers and realized it was a weak variation of human Spiritual Power.
• Jiang Fan killed the Phantom Night Charm Deer and lay down to sleep, leaving its body for the siblings to find.
• Tak, Will, and Elisa discovered the deer dead without wounds and could not explain what had happened.
• Jiang Fan urged the siblings to focus on bringing the deer back to get medicine for their mother, and Elisa called him their lucky star.
• The group hurried back to the Wuganmole Tribe, while Jiang Fan used his force field to kill nearby attacking beasts along the way.
• After reaching the Yadan Plains in just over five hours, Tak again called Jiang Fan their lucky star because no alien beasts had attacked them.

Tak brought Jiang Fan back to the Wuganmole Tribe after hunting a Phantom Night Charm Deer, and Jiang Fan discovered that Tak’s mother was gravely ill. After examining her, Jiang Fan identified her condition as a treatable cold and fever and named the herbs needed to make a remedy, which Elisa said the tribe had.

• Tak introduced Jiang Fan to Wuganmole tribespeople, who teased Elisa about making him her sweetheart.
• Tak and Will checked on their sick mother, and Tak sent Will to take the Phantom Night Charm Deer to the tribe chief in exchange for medicine.
• Jiang Fan offered to examine Tak’s mother after hearing about her fever, headaches, and chills.
• Jiang Fan examined Tak’s mother and said that several doses of a medicinal decoction could cure her illness.
• Elisa exclaimed that the Wuganmole Tribe had all the herbs Jiang Fan had named.

Jiang Fan’s medicinal soup eased Tak’s mother’s illness, but Will failed to return from the chief’s home and was reported injured after fighting Zachary. Tak rushed to help Will, and Jiang Fan used his spatial ability to go after him, leaving Elisa stunned.

• Tak accepted Elisa’s suggestion and asked Jiang Fan how to prepare the medicinal soup for their mother.
• Elisa and Tak prepared the soup, and their mother began sweating, her fever eased, and she fell asleep; Jiang Fan said she would need two more days of treatment to recover fully.
• Tak worried that Will had been gone nearly two hours when Hard arrived and reported that Zachary had injured him in a fight at the chief’s home.
• Tak left with Hard to find Will and told Elisa to stay home and care for their mother.
• Jiang Fan sensed Will’s location, vanished through spatial ripples, and left Elisa searching the plains in shock.

Will lost the medicine he had obtained for his mother to Zachary in a duel, then tried to take it back by force. Tak intervened and confronted Zachary, but the chief stopped Tak and said Zachary was not at fault.

• Zachary refused to return the medicine after defeating Will in a duel, despite Will explaining that his mother needed it.
• Will lunged for the capsules, but Zachary dodged and struck him down.
• Tak arrived, knocked Zachary back, and learned that Will had lost the medicine in a wager.
• Tak demanded the medicine back and attacked Zachary, who appealed to the chief for protection.
• The chief told Tak to stop and declared that Zachary was not at fault.

Tak realized the Elder was using an ability enhanced by the Phantom Night Charm Deer to influence tribesmen and prevent Tak’s family from leaving for the Alliance. Jiang Fan confronted the Elder and demanded answers about the deer, Tak’s family, and the Alliance.

• Tak suspected the Elder was behind Zachary’s scheme and tried to decide whether to accept the Elder’s offer of medicine in exchange for hunting another exotic beast.
• The Elder’s influence nearly made Tak agree, but a sharp crack in his mind broke the effect, and Tak deduced that the Elder’s power resembled hypnosis and was strengthened by the Phantom Night Charm Deer’s essence blood.
• The Elder watched Tak from his room and wondered why his spiritual influence had suddenly been severed.
• Jiang Fan appeared behind the Elder without being detected, then restrained him with an invisible force and demanded answers about the Phantom Night Charm Deer, Tak’s family, and the Alliance.

Jiang Fan questioned the Wuganmole Tribe leader about his use of the Phantom Night Charm Deer and the Guardian Alliance. He learned how the alliance began and heard of a mysterious reformer who became its leader, but the man’s identity remained unknown.

• The Wuganmole Tribe leader admitted he hunted Phantom Night Charm Deer to cultivate Spiritual Power and stopped Tak's family from going to the alliance to keep his people under his control.
• Jiang Fan extracted and examined the leader’s special energy, then asked him to explain the Guardian Alliance.
• The leader said Rudolf Pork founded the Guardian Alliance fifty years earlier to defend the Yadan Plains and protect humanity from exotic beasts.
• The leader explained that a powerful Martial Artist arrived about twenty years earlier, reformed the alliance, and changed its clothing, customs, and language.
• The leader said Rudolf Pork died ten years earlier and made the mysterious reformer alliance leader, though tribal leaders had never seen his true face.