Chapter Summaries

He Mingkong told Lu Chuan that his sister Lu Wangshu had exceptionally strong Spiritual Aptitude and explained why the Spirit Snake Cult had targeted her. Chen Qingfeng and Shi Qingning arrived, and Shi Qingning sought to recruit Lu Wangshu into the Suspended Mirror Division, leaving Lu Chuan to weigh her safety against the forceful request.

• He Mingkong explained that Lu Wangshu might possess High Spiritual Aptitude and that Liu Bao had sought her as a sacrifice for Demon Ghosts and Evil Gods.
• Chen Qingfeng arrived with Shi Qingning, who identified herself as a cultivator from the Suspended Mirror Division and said she had come for Lu Wangshu.
• Shi Qingning asked to meet Lu Wangshu and proposed that she join the Suspended Mirror Division, while Lu Chuan questioned her authority and intentions.
• Chen Qingfeng warned that the Spirit Snake Cult would target Lu Wangshu again and argued that joining the Suspended Mirror Division would protect her and provide cultivation training.

Lu Chuan weighed how to protect Lu Wangshu from the Spirit Snake Cult, but refused to let her leave with Shi Qingning after hearing her fear of being sent away. As Chen Qingfeng warned that the cult threatened his whole family, He Mingkong offered Kunlun Mountain's training and benefits, leaving Lu Chuan to consider the stakes.

• Lu Chuan realized the Spirit Snake Cult would target Lu Wangshu because of her High Spiritual Aptitude and considered sending her with Shi Qingning or He Mingkong.
• Lu Wangshu asked Lu Chuan whether he planned to give her to someone else, and he promised she would stay with him unless she chose to leave.
• Shi Qingning recognized Lu Wangshu's exceptional aptitude and urged Lu Chuan to send her to the Suspended Mirror Division, but he refused.
• He Mingkong offered to recommend Lu Wangshu to Kunlun Mountain, while Chen Qingfeng warned that the Spirit Snake Cult was too powerful and dangerous to confront.
• He Mingkong offered Lu Chuan further benefits, including cultivation methods, if Lu Wangshu went to Kunlun Mountain.

Lu Chuan weighed offers from He Mingkong and Shi Qingning for Lu Wangshu’s future training and insisted she remain in Fengle City for now. Shi Qingning agreed to teach her there until she turned fifteen, while Lu Chuan kept his Kunlun Martial Arts School contract.

• He Mingkong offered Lu Chuan generous signing benefits and promised martial arts methods if Lu Wangshu entered Kunlun Mountain, while Shi Qingning countered with a route into the Demon Suppressing Division.
• Lu Chuan said he would not let Lu Wangshu leave if she did not want to, and proposed that a mentor stay in Fengle City to train her until she was older.
• He Mingkong refused to have Kunlun Mountain break its rules, but Shi Qingning agreed to become Lu Wangshu’s master and teach her in Fengle City until she turned fifteen.
• Shi Qingning withdrew the offer to recommend Lu Chuan to the Demon Suppressing Division, and Lu Chuan accepted her terms.
• He Mingkong confirmed that his promised benefits remained unchanged and invited Lu Chuan to formally sign with the Kunlun Martial Arts School the next day.

Lu Chuan accepted Shi Qingning’s offer to teach Lu Wangshu and planned to move them into the Inner City, while Chen Qingfeng tied a possible Demon Suppressing Division recommendation to Lu Chuan reaching the Eighth Rank. Meanwhile, the Spirit Snake Cult learned that Lu Wangshu might have High Spiritual Aptitude and ordered her capture for a sacrifice.

• He Mingkong left after accepting that Shi Qingning would take Lu Wangshu as her student, and Lu Chuan introduced Shi Qingning as her teacher.
• Lu Wangshu respectfully greeted Shi Qingning, who planned to arrange her schooling and urged Lu Chuan to move to the Inner City.
• Chen Qingfeng told Lu Chuan that they could discuss a Demon Suppressing Division recommendation after Lu Chuan advanced to the Eighth Rank.
• Lu Chuan questioned Chen Qingfeng and Shi Qingning about the Spirit Snake Cult, Demonic Martial Artists, and Cultivators.
• A Spirit Snake Cult follower told the Black Robe Figure that Lu Bao was dead and that Lu Wangshu might have High Spiritual Aptitude.
• The Black Robe Figure ordered the follower to confirm her aptitude and bring Lu Wangshu to him for a sacrifice.

Lu Chuan moved Liang Ya and Lu Wangshu into their new home in the Inner City, then went to Kunlun Martial Arts School to sign a contract. He received an advanced Communication Watch and logged into the Virtual Network for the first time.

• Lu Chuan brought Liang Ya and Lu Wangshu into the Inner City and settled them in their new home in the Beichen Mansion residential complex.
• Lu Chuan left for Kunlun Martial Arts School, where Ning Yang met him and escorted him to see He Mingkong.
• He Mingkong gave Lu Chuan the latest model of Communication Watch and told him his contract and training rewards were waiting through the Virtual Network.
• Ning Yang explained that only Kunlun Martial Arts School and certain government figures could obtain the advanced Communication Watch.
• Lu Chuan registered the watch and logged into the Virtual Network, where a System Panel appeared before him.

After signing with Kunlun Martial Arts School, Lu Chuan accepted He Mingkong's offer to become his disciple despite the danger posed by He Mingkong's enemies. He Mingkong named him his seventh Personal Disciple and gave him the Tier 3 Divine Weapon Blood Shadow Battle Saber.

• Lu Chuan completed the virtual verification, signed an agreement with Kunlun Martial Arts School, and received the Five Elements Skin Refining Method and Hurricane Saber Technique.
• He Mingkong warned Lu Chuan that becoming his disciple meant inheriting the karma of his many enemies, but Lu Chuan decided to accept him as master.
• He Mingkong welcomed Lu Chuan as his seventh Personal Disciple, and Ning Yang congratulated his new Junior Brother.
• He Mingkong offered Lu Chuan a saber, and Ning Yang identified it as the Tier 3 Divine Weapon Blood Shadow Battle Saber worth at least thirty million.
• Lu Chuan tried to return the valuable saber, but He Mingkong insisted that he keep it.

After He Mingkong gave Lu Chuan the Blood Shadow Battle Saber and challenged him to master the Five Elements Skin Refining Method within a year, Ning Yang showed him around Kunlun Martial Arts School and led him to his exclusive training room. Lu Chuan measured his greatly improved abilities there, then began studying the Five Elements Skin Refining Method and Hurricane Saber Technique.

• He Mingkong gave Lu Chuan the Blood Shadow Battle Saber and urged him to perfect the Five Elements Skin Refining Method within a year.
• Ning Yang toured Kunlun Martial Arts School with Lu Chuan, where the other members discussed the Hall Master's new disciple.
• Ning Yang brought Lu Chuan to his Exclusive Martial Arts Room, then hurried away after receiving a message.
• Lu Chuan had Xiao Yi activate the room's equipment and tested his strength, recording 83,000 jin punching power and a speed of 139.8 meters per second.
• Lu Chuan opened the emails containing the Five Elements Skin Refining Method and Hurricane Saber Technique and began learning them.

Lu Chuan studied the Five Elements Skin Refining Method and practiced it until its proficiency reached 398, then left Kunlun Martial Arts School to return home. Meanwhile, He Mingkong and Ning Yang discussed the Liang Family’s sacrifices to an Evil God and He Mingkong told Ning Yang to report the missing people while keeping the disciples safe.

• Lu Chuan learned the Five Elements Skin Refining Method and Hurricane Saber Technique, then practiced the skin-refining method until his proficiency reached 398.
• Lu Chuan decided to use his two White Jade Dragon Rock Fruits to speed his training and left the martial arts school so his mother and younger sister would not worry.
• Ning Yang told He Mingkong that the Liang Family was sacrificing people to an Evil God and colluding with Demon Ghosts, and He Mingkong said the authorities were likely already investigating.
• He Mingkong instructed Ning Yang to file a missing-person report, reassure the affected disciples, and prevent them from confronting the Liang Family.
• Ning Yang reported that Lu Chuan had trained all day in Martial Arts Room No. 007, and He Mingkong told him to support Lu Chuan because he believed Lu Chuan had extraordinary potential.

After a month of cultivation, Lu Chuan perfected the Five Elements Skin Refining Method and Hurricane Saber Technique, then hurried to pick up Lu Wangshu. He learned that the Spirit Snake Cult had attacked her school and joined the search, while Ning Yang warned that a powerful city faction might be involved.

• Lu Chuan reached perfection in the Hurricane Saber Technique after a month of training and decided to conceal his progress from He Mingkong for now.
• Lu Chuan left Kunlun Martial Arts School to pick up Lu Wangshu from First Elementary School.
• Ning Yang told Lu Chuan that Spirit Snake Cult Demonic Martial Artists had infiltrated the school to abduct students, but Shi Qingning had saved Lu Wangshu.
• Lu Chuan volunteered to join the patrol and search for the attackers.
• Ning Yang warned Lu Chuan that a Great Faction in the city might have colluded with the Spirit Snake Cult and urged him to keep the suspicion secret.

Lu Chuan learned that the Spirit Snake Cult was suspected of targeting his sister and agreed to join the patrol and search mission. After confirming Lu Wangshu was safe, he learned Shi Qingning had moved in across the hall and was warned not to confront the cult until he became a Martial Master.

• Lu Chuan promised Ning Yang not to spread the Spirit Snake Cult information and agreed to join the patrol and search team that night.
• Ning Yang questioned why He Mingkong had assigned Lu Chuan to the mission, and He Mingkong said he wanted the Spirit Snake Cult and Liang Family to temper Lu Chuan.
• Lu Chuan returned home and found Liang Ya and Shi Qingning waiting; Liang Ya told him that Lu Wangshu was safe and asleep in her room.
• Shi Qingning told Lu Chuan she had bought the apartment across the hall for three times its price so she could teach Lu Wangshu more conveniently.
• Shi Qingning explained that the Spirit Snake Cult had tried to abduct children for a Blood Sacrifice and warned Lu Chuan not to challenge the cult before reaching Martial Master strength.
• Lu Chuan resolved that he would not wait to repay the Spirit Snake Cult and would kill its followers if he got the chance.

After Shi Qingning thwarted the Spirit Snake Cult’s attempt to seize a gifted Spirit Child, the cult’s Hall Master pushed his followers to complete their mission and sought help from a Liang Family man. Lu Chuan joined Ning Yang and eight other Kunlun Martial Arts School elites on their way to the City Lord’s Mansion.

• The Spirit Snake Cult’s Hall Master learned that Shi Qingning had foiled their attempt to capture a Spirit Child and ordered his followers to make up their shortfall before the Sacrificial Ceremony.
• A cult member proposed targeting the gifted Spirit Child, but the Hall Master rejected the plan because Shi Qingning protected the child and told everyone to avoid provoking her.
• The Hall Master asked a middle-aged man from the Liang Family for help and urged him to assist in luring Shi Qingning away; the man agreed only to help if it was safe.
• Lu Chuan arrived at Kunlun Martial Arts School and joined Ning Yang and eight other elite disciples heading to the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Lu Chuan assessed the group and noted that all ten were strong martial artists, including one Eighth Rank Bone Quenching Realm fighter, while Ning Yang was at the peak of Eighth Rank Bone Quenching.

Lu Chuan and the Kunlun Martial Arts School arrived at the City Lord's Mansion to receive their search assignments for the Spirit Snake Cult. They were sent to search the Outer City's East District, where the cult was thought most likely to be hiding, and Lu Chuan suggested they might have moved into the Inner City instead.

• At the City Lord's Mansion, Wang He provoked Ning Yang, and the two traded insults before City Guard Commander Li Tianming arrived.
• Li Tianming introduced himself and assigned the gathered powers their search tasks.
• Lu Chuan learned that Wang He belonged to Blood Tiger Martial Arts School, which was backed by the Liang Family.
• Ning Yang returned with the assignment to search the Outer City's East District, and the Kunlun group left the gathering to begin their mission.
• After they reached the Outer City, Ning Yang complained that Li Tianming had made them the main force, while Lu Chuan speculated the Spirit Snake Cult might have moved into the Inner City.

Lu Chuan led the Kunlun Martial Arts School group into Dongshan Residential Area to search for Spirit Snake Cult, where he sensed a Demonic Martial Artist and attacked him. He left the wounded cultist pinned beneath his foot and demanded to know where his accomplices were.

• Lu Chuan recommended starting the search in Dongshan Residential Area because it was crowded and difficult to investigate.
• Lu Chuan sensed a familiar Demonic Martial Artist aura on a young man and struck him before the others could react.
• The young man transformed, revealing snake scales and compound eyes, and Ning Yang recognized him as a Spirit Snake Cult follower.
• Lu Chuan crushed both of the cultist’s arms despite his threats, while the Kunlun group watched in awe.
• Lu Chuan demanded that the cultist reveal where his accomplices were, threatening to make him wish he were dead if he refused.

Lu Chuan killed a stubborn Spirit Snake Cult follower, then hunted down two more cultists on a rooftop and defeated them. Their deaths greatly increased his Hurricane Saber Technique proficiency and brought the fruit on the Bronze Ancient Tree’s second branch close to ripening.

• Lu Chuan beheaded a tortured Spirit Snake Cult follower who refused to reveal his companions’ whereabouts.
• Lu Chuan spotted two Spirit Snake Cult followers on a rooftop and raced up the building, with Ning Yang following him.
• Lu Chuan gave the two Demonic Martial Artists a chance to call their accomplices, and one secretly sent a distress message.
• The two cultists demonized and attacked Lu Chuan, but his Hurricane Saber Technique killed them both.
• Lu Chuan gained 129 proficiency points in Hurricane Saber Technique and saw the fruit on the Bronze Ancient Tree’s second branch near ripening.

Lu Chuan rescued Ning Yang and the Kunlun Martial Arts School disciples from a Spirit Snake Cult squad, killing nearly all the attackers. The squad’s captain escaped using a secret technique, but Lu Chuan shot him down with an arrow as he fled.

• Lu Chuan heard fighting below and rushed to the twenty-third floor, where seventeen Spirit Snake Cult Demonic Martial Artists had cornered Ning Yang and the others.
• Lu Chuan charged into the fight and killed two Demonic Martial Artists, turning the battle in the Kunlun Martial Arts School’s favor.
• Lu Chuan cut down the squad’s remaining fighters while Ning Yang held their powerful captain at bay.
• The captain dodged Lu Chuan’s strike, then Ning Yang wounded him and sent him through a window, but the captain used a secret technique to flee at great speed.
• Lu Chuan shot the fleeing captain with his bow, blasting apart his shoulder and hurling him into a wall a hundred meters away.

Lu Chuan and Ning Yang failed to capture a Demonic Martial Artist who escaped after undergoing complete Demonization, but Lu Chuan revealed that he could track him using medicinal powder on his arrow. Hoping the fugitive would lead them to a Spirit Snake Cult hideout and more enemies, Lu Chuan led the group in pursuit.

• The Demonic Martial Artist emerged from the ruins in complete Demonization and fled, evading Ning Yang despite Lu Chuan's arrow wound.
• Lu Chuan decided not to shoot again because his arm was numb and the enemy had become too fast to hit easily.
• Lu Chuan told Ning Yang that special medicinal powder on his arrow would let him track the fugitive for several hours.
• Ning Yang realized they could use the fugitive to find a Spirit Snake Cult hideout, while Lu Chuan hoped to encounter enough Demonic Martial Artists to mature his Entry Fruit.
• After allowing the group time to recover, Lu Chuan led Ning Yang and the others after the fugitive, guiding them through the residential district and beyond their assigned search area.

Lu Chuan and Ning Yang tracked a Spirit Snake Cult Believer to a bar, where a group of Demonic Martial Artists and Liang Wenbo’s force ambushed them. The chapter ended with Ning Yang realizing they were trapped and Wang He taunting him as their escape route closed.

• Lu Chuan led Ning Yang and the others to a bar, where they realized the place had been cleared in anticipation of their arrival.
• A Demonic Martial Artist ambushed Lu Chuan, but Lu Chuan defeated him in one clash and cut him in two.
• The Spirit Snake Cult Believer they had been tracking emerged with nearly thirty black-robed Demonic Martial Artists.
• A squad led by Liang Wenbo entered the bar, with Wang He standing behind him.
• Ning Yang recognized Liang Wenbo, realized they had fallen into a trap, and urged everyone to fight their way out.
• Wang He mocked Ning Yang and told him to kneel and beg Liang Wenbo for mercy.

Lu Chuan fought desperately against the Spirit Snake Cult’s Demonic Martial Artists as the Liang Family and Blood Tiger Martial Arts School tried to wipe out the Kunlun Martial Arts School. With his allies falling and himself badly wounded, he finally pushed Hurricane Saber Technique past its limit, gaining a surge in speed and power.

• Wang He revealed the Liang Family and Blood Tiger Martial Arts School had joined forces with the Spirit Snake Cult, and Liang Wenbo vowed to kill the Kunlun Martial Arts School disciples and cover up the massacre.
• The Spirit Snake Cult’s Demonic Martial Artists and Liang Wenbo’s group attacked, forcing Ning Yang and Lu Chuan’s companions to fight for their lives.
• Lu Chuan held off more than ten Demonic Martial Artists while his Hurricane Saber Technique proficiency rapidly increased, despite accumulating severe wounds.
• A Kunlun Martial Arts School disciple was killed, and the remaining disciples’ morale collapsed as Ning Yang was driven back by Liang Wenbo and Wang He.
• After tearing off a Demonic Martial Artist’s arm, Lu Chuan triggered Hurricane Saber Technique’s limit break and found his saber had become faster, sharper, and infused with the power of wind.

Lu Chuan broke through on the battlefield and used the Limit Breaking state of the Hurricane Saber Technique to slaughter the Demonic Martial Artists surrounding him. After saving the Kunlun Martial Arts School disciples from the Blood Tiger Martial Arts School and the Liang Family, he left Ning Yang still holding out.

• Lu Chuan killed four Demonic Martial Artists in two slashes, revealing that his strength had surged after his breakthrough.
• Lu Chuan cut down the dozen-plus Demonic Martial Artists who had surrounded him, while Ning Yang and the others watched in shock.
• Lu Chuan spared the wounded cultist, severed his remaining arm, and threatened to make him watch as he killed the Liang Family members.
• Lu Chuan rushed behind the Blood Tiger Martial Arts School members attacking the Kunlun Martial Arts School disciples and began cutting them down.
• Lu Chuan killed the attackers surrounding the Kunlun disciples in under thirty seconds, leaving Ning Yang's rescue for later.

Lu Chuan killed Wang He after Liang Wenbo abandoned him and fled the bar. Lu Chuan pursued Liang Wenbo through the Outer City, where Liang became trapped in a dead-end alley and was attacked by two arrows.

• Lu Chuan cut off Wang He's left arm with his Tier 3 Divine Weapon War Blade and chased him as he tried to flee.
• Liang Wenbo drove Ning Yang back, left Wang He behind, and escaped from the bar.
• Lu Chuan caught up with Wang He and split him in two, then rushed after Liang Wenbo despite Ning Yang's warning.
• Liang Wenbo ran into a dead-end alley and leaped toward the roof of a high-rise to escape.
• Two arrows shot toward Liang Wenbo as he leaped into the air.