Chapter Summaries

Lu Chuan killed Liang Wenbo and the Demonic Martial Artist, then gained the All-Encompassing entry, which let him absorb energy without fear of Fierce Fiend Power. He and Ning Yang fled the bar with the surviving Kunlun Martial Arts School disciples and their fallen companions, hoping to avoid suspicion from the Liang Family.

• Lu Chuan pinned Liang Wenbo to a high-rise wall with two arrows, then killed him with a third as Ning Yang witnessed the final shot.
• Lu Chuan returned to the bar and killed the crippled Demonic Martial Artist with his saber.
• The Bronze Ancient Tree’s second fruit ripened and granted Lu Chuan the All-Encompassing entry, which could smelt all things and neutralize negative energy.
• Lu Chuan realized the entry would let him consume fierce beast meat and crystal cores without processing away their Fierce Fiend Power.
• Ning Yang urged Lu Chuan to leave, and Lu Chuan led the surviving disciples out with their companions’ bodies in the hope of misleading the Liang Family.

After the Liang Family learned Liang Wenbo had been killed, it sent people across the Outer City to hunt for the culprit. Lu Chuan and his injured companions returned to the Inner City before the investigation could expose them.

• Lu Chuan guarded his injured companions while patrolling the area, and he sensed his body and abilities continuing to improve.
• The Liang Family learned Liang Wenbo had been killed and dispatched people to investigate and find the culprit.
• Ning Yang told Lu Chuan that the Liang Family was searching the Outer City, though it had not yet identified him, and urged him to return to the Inner City.
• Lu Chuan agreed to return with Ning Yang and the three injured disciples, carrying the bodies of their five dead companions.
• Lu Chuan's group openly headed toward the Inner City, while onlookers suspected little because they were Kunlun Martial Arts School disciples.

Lu Chuan and the Kunlun Martial Arts School disciples returned to the City Lord's Mansion after killing twelve Spirit Snake Cult believers, where Li Tianming accused them of abandoning their mission. Lu Chuan challenged Li Tianming's interpretation of the rules and invoked the Demon Suppressing Division and Suspended Mirror Division, leaving Li Tianming furious as the group departed.

• Ning Yang told Li Tianming that his group had searched its assigned area and killed twelve Spirit Snake Cult believers.
• Li Tianming insisted that the group had to remain on duty until he ended the mission, and Lu Chuan argued that they had already fulfilled their assigned task.
• When Li Tianming accused Lu Chuan of teaching him how to do his job, Lu Chuan warned that the Kunlun Martial Arts School's master, He Mingkong, would not ignore an unjust conviction.
• Lu Chuan claimed that the Demon Suppressing Division and Suspended Mirror Division were investigating the Spirit Snake Cult and searching for an Inner City collaborator.
• Lu Chuan left with Ning Yang and the others to attend to their five dead disciples, while Li Tianming vowed to punish Lu Chuan if he discovered that the claims were false.

After leaving the City Lord’s Mansion, Lu Chuan returned to Kunlun Martial Arts School with Ning Yang and found it badly damaged by an attack. He and Ning Yang learned that masked assailants had failed to kill He Mingkong, who suspected the Liang Family and vowed to respond cautiously.

• Lu Chuan told Ning Yang that the Demon Suppressing Division and Suspended Mirror Division were investigating the Spirit Snake Cult, without revealing how he knew.
• Lu Chuan and Ning Yang returned to Kunlun Martial Arts School and found injured disciples and signs of a fierce battle.
• Lu Chuan confirmed He Mingkong was alive and summoned Ning Yang to the rear courtyard.
• Ning Yang recounted how Lu Chuan had killed members of the Liang Family, Blood Tiger Martial Arts School, and Spirit Snake Cult during the City Guard mission.
• He Mingkong said masked attackers had raided the school and suspected the Liang Family had ordered the assault.
• Lu Chuan and Ning Yang urged caution, and He Mingkong agreed to avoid a direct clash while planning a measured response.

Lu Chuan learned that the Liang Family had deeply colluded with the Spirit Snake Cult, but he remained determined to leave the city and test his strength. After his tests showed a massive increase in power, He Mingkong saw the results and was stunned.

• He Mingkong and Ning Yang warned Lu Chuan that the Liang Family might target him and urged him to avoid leaving the city.
• After Lu Chuan left, He Mingkong ordered Ning Yang to strike Blood Tiger Martial Arts School as a warning to the Liang Family.
• Lu Chuan tested his strength in Kunlun Martial Arts School's underground Martial Arts Room and recorded a punch of 100,000 kilograms and a speed of 297 meters per second.
• Lu Chuan erased the test data, decided to leave the city the next day, and went home.
• He Mingkong's smart assistant showed him Lu Chuan's test results, leaving him stunned by the extent of Lu Chuan's improvement.

Lu Chuan entered Python Mountain and killed a Second Order Blood Tiger with a single arrow. He swallowed its crystal core, whose energy advanced his Five Elements Skin Refining Method and raised him to Half-step Ice Skin.

• Lu Chuan traveled into Python Mountain at extraordinary speed, intent on testing his improved strength in its inner region.
• He spotted a Second Order Blood Tiger and killed it instantly with one arrow through its head.
• Lu Chuan dissected the Blood Tiger and swallowed its crystal core despite the danger of its Fierce Fiend Power.
• His second entry absorbed and refined the core's power as he repeatedly practiced the Five Elements Skin Refining Method.
• Lu Chuan's panel showed Ninth Rank Skin Refining Realm at Half-step Ice Skin, and he concluded that his second entry could turn crystal cores into a source of refined energy.

Lu Chuan hunted deep in Python Mountain, refined many Fierce Beast Crystal Cores, and broke through to Ice Skin while gaining the Five Elements Spirit Body. Uneasy about advancing toward the mountainside and with his backpack full, he decided to return to the city before attempting the next breakthrough into the Eighth Rank.

• Lu Chuan killed and dissected fierce beasts in Python Mountain, refining their crystal cores as he continued deeper into the mountain.
• After swallowing the Black Python's crystal core, Lu Chuan cultivated the Five Elements Skin Refining Method until he reached Ice Skin and broke the method's limit.
• Lu Chuan discovered that the limit-breaking method had granted him the Five Elements Spirit Body, which greatly strengthened his constitution and potential.
• Lu Chuan felt a growing unease about climbing toward Python Mountain's mountainside and chose to turn back with his full backpack.
• Lu Chuan recognized that his next step would be to temper his bones with Internal Strength and enter the Eighth Rank realm.

Lu Chuan hurried down Python Mountain and discovered Martial Arts First Middle School students and teachers surrounded by a Rock Wolf pack. As the teachers prepared to fight desperately, Lu Chuan watched from outside the valley.

• Lu Chuan descended Python Mountain swiftly with his heavy backpack, then stopped after hearing cries for help near the mountain's foot.
• Lu Chuan rushed through the jungle and found seventeen survivors from Martial Arts First Middle School surrounded in a valley.
• Lu Chuan saw thirty-one First-Tier Rock Wolves and a Second-Tier Rock Wolf King attacking the group, while three Eighth Rank teachers struggled to protect fourteen students.
• One teacher lamented that the wolves had appeared unexpectedly, while the teachers debated whether to fight or flee.
• The first teacher urged the others to burn their qi and blood and stake their lives on breaking out.

Lu Chuan intervened from the valley cliff, shooting down the Rock Wolves and wounding the Half-step Third Order Rock Wolf King. The three teachers from Martial Arts First Middle School seized the opening to attack the weakened beast.

• The three teachers from Martial Arts First Middle School burned their blood qi and fought back the Rock Wolves, but the Rock Wolf King struck and badly injured all three.
• The middle-aged teacher decided to abandon the fourteen students and flee, but Lu Chuan began shooting Rock Wolves from the cliff.
• Lu Chuan killed or injured more than half the pack, then fired at the Rock Wolf King, which dodged his first arrow.
• Lu Chuan shot three arrows at once, and one pierced the Rock Wolf King's body, leaving it severely wounded.
• The three teachers attacked the weakened Rock Wolf King together as Lu Chuan drew another arrow.

Lu Chuan killed the Rock Wolf King and rescued the Martial Arts First Middle School group, then learned the wolves’ sudden appearance and the king’s strength pointed to an unexplained change in the valley. Suspecting the source lay beneath a small pool, he rushed to investigate it.

• Lu Chuan fired a volley of arrows that killed the Rock Wolf King and cleared the remaining Rock Wolves, and he noticed a third branch sprouting from the Bronze Tree in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Lu Chuan harvested the Rock Wolf King’s crystal core and materials, keeping the core hidden instead of refining it in front of witnesses.
• The three teachers thanked Lu Chuan and explained that they had visited the valley before and considered it safe, but the wolves’ arrival had been unexpected.
• Lu Chuan and the teachers noted that the Rock Wolf King’s Half-step Third Order strength was unusual, and Lu Chuan realized he had not checked beneath the pool in the northwest of the valley.
• Lu Chuan rushed to the pool at the base of the cliff, suspecting that whatever had changed in the valley lay beneath it.

Lu Chuan dove into a seemingly bottomless pool and found thirteen Water Attribute Spirit Stones that had surfaced after underground shifts. He returned to the teachers and students of Martial Arts First Middle School, whose surprise and greed left the stones’ safety uncertain.

• Lu Chuan sensed pure water power beneath the pool and plunged into its freezing depths.
• Lu Chuan endured the extreme cold, pressure, and injury as he dove deeper until he reached the bottom.
• Lu Chuan found thirteen azure crystals amid cracks in the pool floor and concluded they had been lifted underground by earth movements that also attracted the Rock Wolves.
• Lu Chuan collected the crystals in a special box and swam back to the surface without encountering danger.
• The teachers and students of Martial Arts First Middle School recognized the crystals as valuable Water Attribute Spirit Stones and looked at Lu Chuan with growing greed.

Lu Chuan discovered that the crystals in his box were valuable Spirit Stones and prepared to leave with them. A Martial Arts First Middle School student tried to demand a share, but the white-haired elder stopped him, and Lu Chuan left the valley without refining the Rock Wolf King's crystal core.

• Lu Chuan showed the crystals to the group, and the white-haired elder identified them as valuable Spirit Stones used for cultivation.
• Lu Chuan put the Spirit Stones in his backpack and prepared to leave the valley.
• A male student from Martial Arts First Middle School blocked Lu Chuan and demanded a share, threatening that he would struggle to gain a foothold in Fengle City otherwise.
• Lu Chuan threatened the student with killing intent, but the white-haired elder apologized and ordered his student to stand down.
• Lu Chuan warned the teachers to keep their students in line, then left the valley with his loot, postponing his breakthrough using the Rock Wolf King's crystal core.

Lu Chuan sold a haul of fierce beast materials to Chen Qingfeng for forty million and learned that the Demon Suppressing Division could provide cultivation methods and resources unavailable elsewhere. He asked Chen Qingfeng what it would take to join, and Chen Qingfeng hinted that his recommendation slot would come at a price.

• Chen Qingfeng questioned Lu Chuan about his cultivation after seeing materials from the Rock Wolf King, and Lu Chuan insisted he was at Ninth Rank Skin Refining.
• Chen Qingfeng valued Lu Chuan's materials at forty million, and Lu Chuan asked him to transfer the money.
• Chen Qingfeng explained that the Demon Suppressing Division had access to high-level cultivation methods and resources that could help its members advance beyond Seventh Rank.
• Lu Chuan asked what conditions were needed to join the Demon Suppressing Division, and Chen Qingfeng said his recommendation slots were too precious to give away for nothing.

Chen Qingfeng blackmailed Lu Chuan into agreeing to kill Ruan Qingyu in exchange for a recommendation to the Demon Suppressing Division. After receiving forty million, Lu Chuan went to Kunlun Martial Arts School to refine a Quasi-Third Rank Fierce Beast Crystal Core and force a breakthrough.

• Chen Qingfeng revealed that he knew Lu Chuan had killed Chen Qingfeng and threatened to expose him unless he killed Ruan Qingyu.
• Lu Chuan agreed to assassinate Ruan Qingyu, and Chen Qingfeng promised to recommend him to the Demon Suppressing Division once she was dead.
• Chen Qingfeng transferred forty million to Lu Chuan, who left Wanchun Hall wary of him.
• Lu Chuan went to Kunlun Martial Arts School, found it deserted, and entered his Martial Arts Room to cultivate.
• Lu Chuan swallowed the Quasi-Third Rank Fierce Beast Crystal Core and used the Five Elements Skin Refining Method to drive his Internal Strength into his bones.

Lu Chuan refined the Rock Wolf King Fierce Beast Crystal Core and broke through to the Eighth Rank Bone Quenching Realm, then tested his greatly increased strength and speed. When he went to find He Mingkong for a Bone Tempering Method, he found Kunlun Martial Arts School deserted and called Ning Yang to learn what had happened.

• Lu Chuan refined the crystal core's energy until his Internal Strength entered his bones, advancing to the Eighth Rank Bone Quenching Realm.
• Lu Chuan checked his attribute panel and decided to ask He Mingkong for a Bone Tempering Method.
• Lu Chuan tested his abilities and recorded punching power of 152,100 kilograms, punching speed of 51 per second, and speed of 320.19 meters per second.
• Lu Chuan reflected that his combat technique lagged behind his improved physical attributes and planned to seek more Martial Skills.
• Lu Chuan found Kunlun Martial Arts School empty and discovered He Mingkong was absent from his courtyard.
• Lu Chuan called Ning Yang on his Communication Watch to ask about He Mingkong.

Lu Chuan learned that He Mingkong and Ning Yang were trapped at Blood Tiger Martial Arts School after a failed attack and rushed there to reinforce them. He found the school surrounded by armed guards and prepared to fight his way inside after alerting Chen Qingfeng to suspected Spirit Snake Cultists.

• Chen Li told Lu Chuan that He Mingkong and Ning Yang were trapped at Blood Tiger Martial Arts School after the Liang Family ambushed Kunlun Martial Arts School’s attack.
• Lu Chuan ordered Chen Li to report suspected Spirit Snake Cultists to the City Lord’s Mansion and hurried to Blood Tiger Martial Arts School.
• Lu Chuan sensed Demonic Martial Artists inside the surrounded building and saw more than a hundred guards, including several Eighth Rank martial artists, blocking the entrance.
• Lu Chuan messaged Chen Qingfeng about the suspected Demonic Martial Artists, drew his War Blade, and charged the guards at the entrance.

Lu Chuan stormed into the Blood Tiger Martial Arts School to rescue He Mingkong, Ning Yang, and the other trapped Kunlun disciples. He killed the Liu Brothers in one strike, leaving Zhang Yuntao and the gathered fighters stunned by his speed and strength.

• Lu Chuan cut down the Blood Tiger Martial Arts School guards at the entrance and slipped past the fighters heading downstairs by taking the stairs.
• Lu Chuan reached the ninth-floor hall, where He Mingkong, Ning Yang, and the Kunlun disciples were surrounded by the Liang family, the Blood Tiger Martial Arts School, and the Spirit Snake Cult.
• He Mingkong told Lu Chuan to flee, but Lu Chuan mocked Zhang Yuntao and the Blood Tiger Martial Arts School.
• The Liang Family Head ordered Liu San and Liu Si to kill Lu Chuan, while Ning Yang warned him that the Liu Brothers were dangerous assassins.
• Lu Chuan outpaced the Liu Brothers and beheaded both of them before they could attack.
• Zhang Yuntao concluded that Lu Chuan was likely an Eighth Rank martial artist whose speed let him overwhelm most opponents.

Lu Chuan held his ground against Zhang Yuntao, a Seventh Rank fighter, while the Liang Family head and another Seventh Rank martial artist pinned He Mingkong and the others down. Chen Qingfeng arrived at the critical moment and struck Zhang Yuntao, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Zhang Yuntao tried to attack Lu Chuan, but He Mingkong intercepted him while the Liang Family head and a Black Robe Figure joined forces against He Mingkong.
• The Blood Tiger Martial Arts School, the Liang Family, and Spirit Snake Cult believers surrounded Ning Yang and the Kunlun Martial Arts School members, preventing them from helping Lu Chuan.
• Zhang Yuntao charged Lu Chuan, and their blade clash sent Lu Chuan stumbling back, though Zhang Yuntao was also shocked by his strength.
• Zhang Yuntao attacked again, but Chen Qingfeng smashed through a hall window, blocked the strike, and knocked Zhang Yuntao backward.
• Chen Qingfeng declared that colluding with Spirit Snake Cult was punishable by death and charged at Zhang Yuntao.

Lu Chuan and Chen Qingfeng turned the battle against the Three Great Factions, wiping out their forces inside the building. Chen Qingfeng killed Zhang Yuntao, while He Mingkong continued holding off Liang Yunze and the Spirit Snake Cult’s Black Robe Figure.

• Chen Qingfeng suppressed Zhang Yuntao as Lu Chuan attacked the fighters surrounding Ning Yang and the Kunlun Martial Arts School disciples.
• The Liang Family Patriarch urged the Black Robe Figure to kill Lu Chuan, but He Mingkong blocked both Seventh Rank fighters from reaching him.
• Lu Chuan used the Hurricane Saber Technique to cut down the Three Great Factions’ fighters as they tried to flee, leaving only Zhang Yuntao and the other two Seventh Rank martial artists alive.
• He Mingkong called on Chen Qingfeng to end the fight quickly before reinforcements arrived.
• Chen Qingfeng abruptly increased his speed and beheaded Zhang Yuntao.

Chen Qingfeng killed Zhang Yuntao and joined He Mingkong in fighting Liang Yunze and a Spirit Snake Cult member. Lu Chuan supported He Mingkong with his bow, killing the Black Robe Figure as the Bronze Tree’s third branch began to grow.

• Chen Qingfeng killed Zhang Yuntao with one slash, shocking Lu Chuan and the others.
• Liang Yunze tried to escape, but Chen Qingfeng blocked the window and engaged him while He Mingkong fought the Black Robe Figure.
• Lu Chuan sent Ning Yang and the others downstairs, then shot the Black Robe Figure through the arm to give He Mingkong an opening.
• He Mingkong wounded the Black Robe Figure, who transformed into a half-human, half-snake monster, while Lu Chuan fired a barrage of arrows.
• He Mingkong severed the monster’s other arm, and Lu Chuan killed it with an arrow through the brow.
• Lu Chuan saw the Bronze Tree’s third branch grow into a tiny twig after the Seventh Rank Demonic Martial Artist died.