Chapter Summaries

Lu Chuan killed Liang Yunze with an arrow after Chen Qingfeng wounded him, and Chen Qingfeng agreed to have the Demon Suppressing Division destroy the Liang Family. Chen Qingfeng revealed that someone else was behind the Liang Family’s collusion with the Spirit Snake Cult, leaving Lu Chuan wary but determined to protect his sister and eliminate the cult.

• Chen Qingfeng severed Liang Yunze’s arm and wounded him in their fight, forcing Liang Yunze to flee through a window.
• Lu Chuan shot Liang Yunze through the heart with an arrow, killing him at the entrance to the Blood Tiger Martial Arts School.
• Chen Qingfeng and He Mingkong questioned Lu Chuan about his strength, and Lu Chuan said he had reached the Eighth Rank Bone Quenching Realm.
• Lu Chuan urged He Mingkong to deal with the Liang Family, and Chen Qingfeng pledged that the Demon Suppressing Division would destroy it for colluding with the Spirit Snake Cult.
• Chen Qingfeng warned Lu Chuan that an unknown force was behind the Liang Family and advised him to keep a low profile while the investigation continued.

He Mingkong taught Lu Chuan the first two levels of the Five Beasts Body Tempering Art and revealed that a breakthrough to the Seventh Rank could let him try out for the secretive Two Great Academies. Lu Chuan learned the forms quickly and left with a chance to pursue their admissions assessment within a year.

• He Mingkong thanked Lu Chuan and offered to teach him a High-grade Bone Tempering Method after recognizing that Lu Chuan had reached the Eighth Rank.
• He Mingkong explained that the Five Beasts Body Tempering Art included skin refining, bone tempering, and organ forging, and that perfecting all three levels could offer a chance to break through to the Martial Master realm.
• He Mingkong demonstrated the first two levels, and Lu Chuan memorized all one hundred and eight forms while his Spiritual Space simulated the art.
• He Mingkong told Lu Chuan to comprehend the art's fighting methods himself and said that reaching the Seventh Rank within a year could give him an opportunity.
• He Mingkong revealed that the Two Great Academies stood above the seven great powers and would hold admissions assessments in a year, while keeping information about themselves confidential to protect their students from foreign assassins.

He Mingkong explained the fierce competition for the Two Great Academies and urged Lu Chuan to reach Seventh Rank and aim for the top hundred thousand in their assessment. He gave Lu Chuan a bottle of Bone Tempering Pills, leaving him with a new cultivation resource and a possible future opportunity at Kunlun Mountain.

• Lu Chuan asked whether he should focus on reaching Seventh Rank and entering the Two Great Academies, and He Mingkong said he should aim for the assessment’s top hundred thousand instead.
• He Mingkong explained that more than a hundred million people took the assessments each year and that Fengle City had produced no top-hundred-thousand candidate for almost ten years.
• He Mingkong said Kunlun might recruit Lu Chuan if he ranked in the top hundred thousand, and explained that Immortal Dao and Martial Dao both pursued power through different paths.
• Lu Chuan asked what opportunity Kunlun offered, but He Mingkong refused to explain until Lu Chuan had advanced further.
• He Mingkong gave Lu Chuan ten Bone Tempering Pills and advised him to try taking two a month, depending on how his body absorbed their medicinal power.

Lu Chuan accepted He Mingkong’s bone-tempering pills and returned to his Martial Arts Room, while the Demon Suppressing Division and City Lord’s Mansion wiped out the Liang Family and Blood Tiger Martial Arts School. The Spirit Snake Cult responded by ordering Luo Suian to capture Lu Wangshu, targeting Lu Chuan as a way to reach her.

• He Mingkong gave Lu Chuan bone-tempering pills, and Lu Chuan took them before leaving for his Martial Arts Room.
• Chen Qingfeng and the City Guard surrounded the Liang Family and slaughtered its members for colluding with the Spirit Snake Cult.
• News of the Liang Family’s and Blood Tiger Martial Arts School’s destruction spread through Fengle City, alarming its factions.
• The Spirit Snake Cult’s Divine Envoy ordered his followers to keep a low profile and seek candidates for the Blood Sacrifice in the Outer City.
• After learning that Lu Wangshu had High Spiritual Aptitude, Luo Suian suggested capturing her through her brother Lu Chuan.
• The Divine Envoy assigned Luo Suian to bring back Lu Wangshu and promised him Divine Infusion after the Blood Sacrifice.

Lu Chuan advanced to the middle stage of the Eighth Rank Bone Quenching Realm after refining three Bone Tempering Pills, then received Chen Qingfeng’s plan for attacking Ruan Qingyu that night. He committed to the deal and continued cultivating before the operation.

• Lu Chuan’s Five Beasts Body Tempering Art practice improved his body, and he measured a punching power of 200,300 kilograms and a punching speed of 63 per second.
• Lu Chuan realized he could refine a Bone Tempering Pill each day, likely due to his All-Encompassing attribute, and set his sights on entering one of the Two Great Academies.
• Chen Qingfeng told Lu Chuan that Ruan Qingyu would visit Cloud Wave Palace at eight that night and warned him to watch out for Ye Rong, a peak Eighth Rank martial artist nearing the Seventh Rank.
• Chen Qingfeng said Lu Chuan would have five minutes to kill Ruan Qingyu before the Chen Family’s experts arrived and promised to hold off the City Lord’s Mansion.
• Lu Chuan decided to honor his deal with Chen Qingfeng and continued cultivating until the evening operation.

Lu Chuan went to Cloud Wave Palace to assassinate Ruan Qingyu, whom Chen Qingfeng had hired him to kill. He launched a volley of arrows at her as she arrived, but her bodyguard deflected them.

• Lu Chuan used Xiao Yi to map the routes from the Chen Family to Cloud Wave Palace and decided to wait near the palace entrance.
• Lu Chuan reached a rooftop about one thousand meters from Cloud Wave Palace and waited for Ruan Qingyu.
• Chen Qingfeng waited beneath an osmanthus tree and said that Ruan Qingyu's time to die had come.
• Ruan Qingyu arrived at Cloud Wave Palace at 7:25 p.m., and Lu Chuan fired twelve arrows toward her heart.
• A woman in a black suit warned of the attack and used a flexible sword to deflect all twelve arrows.

Lu Chuan tried to assassinate Ruan Qingyu outside Cloud Wave Palace, but discovered that she survived a fatal wound and suspected she was a demon ghost. He fled toward Wanchun Hall to find Chen Qingfeng, a member of the Demon Suppressing Division.

• Lu Chuan’s arrows killed more than a dozen guards, and Ye Rong urged Ruan Qingyu to hurry inside Cloud Wave Palace.
• Lu Chuan fired a Blood Shadow Arrow at Ye Rong, piercing her throat and then Ruan Qingyu’s heart.
• Ye Rong collapsed, but Ruan Qingyu’s wound healed in moments as black mist emerged from it.
• Ruan Qingyu looked toward Lu Chuan with black mist in her eyes, and he fled the rooftop, convinced she was not human.
• Lu Chuan avoided Kunlun Martial Arts School and his home, heading to Wanchun Hall to seek Chen Qingfeng’s help.

After discovering that Ruan Qingyu survived a fatal arrow wound because she was symbiotic with a Demon Ghost, Lu Chuan sought help from Chen Qingfeng. The chapter ended with Lu Chuan agreeing to leave the city as bait so Chen Qingfeng could investigate Ruan Qingyu’s forces.

• Ruan Qingyu entered Cloud Wave Palace after warning that anyone who noticed her secret had to die.
• Lu Chuan told Chen Qingfeng that he had killed Ye Rong but failed to kill Ruan Qingyu, who survived an arrow through the heart.
• Lu Chuan showed Chen Qingfeng a recording, and Chen Qingfeng recognized Ruan Qingyu as a Demon Ghost symbiote.
• Chen Qingfeng said the Demon Suppressing Division needed time to investigate possible Demon Ghosts inside the Chen Family before acting against Ruan Qingyu.
• Chen Qingfeng proposed using Lu Chuan as bait outside the city to draw out Ruan Qingyu’s subordinates and learn their strength.
• Lu Chuan agreed to leave the city the next day and warned Chen Qingfeng not to fail him again.

Lu Chuan entered Python Mountain as bait for Ruan Qingyu's people, but a poisonous fog and swarms of snakes trapped him. Chen Qingfeng intervened with a talisman and a net after Lu Chuan discovered an early-stage Soldier Grade Demon Ghost.

• Lu Chuan left the city and entered Python Mountain, hoping to draw out Ruan Qingyu's people.
• A strange mist filled the mountain, and countless venomous snakes surrounded and attacked Lu Chuan.
• Lu Chuan realized the poisonous miasma and snake blood were slowing him, so he fought toward what he thought was the mountain's edge.
• A Demon Ghost's illusions kept Lu Chuan lost in the forest, and he spotted its blurry figure before calling for Chen Qingfeng.
• Chen Qingfeng set the fog alight with a talisman, driving off the snakes and revealing the burning Demon Ghost.
• A black net descended and enveloped the Demon Ghost.

Lu Chuan learned about Demon Ghosts, mental attacks, and the rarity of spiritual cultivation resources from Chen Qingfeng, while considering joining the Demon Suppressing Division. Chen Qingfeng captured the Demon Ghost and hinted that it had helped him guess Ruan Qingyu’s identity.

• Chen Qingfeng explained that the trapped Soldier Grade Demon Ghost could use mental attacks and illusions, and that Lu Chuan’s ability to resist them showed his Spiritual Power was unusually strong.
• Chen Qingfeng described the ranks of Spiritual Power and the rare methods used to cultivate it, while Lu Chuan considered the advantages of joining the Demon Suppressing Division before pursuing the Two Great Academies.
• Lu Chuan decided that he would choose his own path rather than follow He Mingkong’s plan for him to enter Kunlun Mountain.
• Chen Qingfeng said the Demon Ghost gave him a guess about Ruan Qingyu’s identity and drew it into the Demon Capturing Gourd with the Demon Binding Net.
• Chen Qingfeng told Lu Chuan that the gourd and net were a Mortal Grade Fourth Tier divine weapon set effective against Demon Ghosts, not a spiritual artifact.

After returning from Python Mountain, Lu Chuan suspected Ruan Qingyu was behind a new attempt on his life. Ruan Qingyu ordered an assassin to kill him within three days, while Chen Qingfeng advised Lu Chuan to seek protection at the Kunlun Martial Arts School.

• Chen Qingfeng told Lu Chuan that the Demon Suppressing Division issued Demon Capturing Gourds to its members and praised its benefits, but Lu Chuan recognized his pitch as an attempt to recruit him.
• Chen Qingfeng warned Lu Chuan that Python Mountain was dangerous, and they descended the mountain together toward Fengle City.
• Ruan Qingyu realized her earlier scheme had failed and ordered a young man to kill Lu Chuan within three days, promising him a reward.
• Back at Wanchun Hall, Lu Chuan sensed danger and suspected Ruan Qingyu was plotting against him again.
• Chen Qingfeng told Lu Chuan to go to the Kunlun Martial Arts School for protection while he handed the Demon Ghost over to specialists for interrogation.

Lu Chuan tried to return to Kunlun Martial Arts School for protection, but a Demon Ghost’s illusion trapped him in the Outer City Ruins. He broke free and discovered Chen Lingyun waiting to kill him, and the two began to fight.

• Lu Chuan left Wanchun Hall and hurried toward Kunlun Martial Arts School, hoping He Mingkong could protect him from Ruan Qingyu.
• Lu Chuan realized he had been circling inside an illusion and used his Spiritual Power to break free, revealing the desolate Outer City Ruins around him.
• Chen Lingyun, a thoroughly demonized Seventh Rank martial artist from the Chen Family, appeared and revealed that he had targeted Lu Chuan.
• Lu Chuan recognized Chen Lingyun and taunted him about serving Ruan Qingyu, enraging Chen Lingyun.
• Chen Lingyun charged and struck at Lu Chuan, who swung his War Blade to meet the punch head-on.

Lu Chuan battled Seventh Rank Viscera Forging expert Chen Lingyun, enduring his attacks and forcing him to fully Demonize. The chapter ended as Lu Chuan unleashed his strongest saber strike against Chen Lingyun’s giant python tail.

• Lu Chuan shattered Chen Lingyun’s arm through his gauntlet and pressed his attack.
• Chen Lingyun dodged Lu Chuan’s slash, drew a longsword, and exchanged more than a hundred blows with him.
• Lu Chuan reflected on his Five Elements Spirit Body and resolved to cultivate inside Kunlun Martial Arts School until he perfected the first two layers of the Five Beasts Body Tempering Art.
• Lu Chuan and Chen Lingyun’s continued clashes devastated the unfinished building and its surroundings.
• Chen Lingyun fully Demonized into a giant python and lashed his tail at Lu Chuan.
• Lu Chuan struck the python tail with his strongest blow.

Lu Chuan killed Chen Lingyun after overpowering him in his demonized python form, then saw through a Demon Ghost’s disguise as He Mingkong and attacked it. The Demon Ghost revealed itself and lunged at Lu Chuan, leaving them in combat.

• Lu Chuan severed Chen Lingyun’s python tail, shot him with Blood Shadow Arrows, and beheaded him.
• Lu Chuan sent a recording of Chen Lingyun’s death to Chen Qingfeng and considered asking him to investigate Chen Lingyun’s connections for clues about Ruan Qingyu.
• He Mingkong arrived and said he had come after receiving Chen Qingfeng’s message and locating Lu Chuan through his Communication Watch.
• Lu Chuan recognized that the approaching He Mingkong was a Demon Ghost in disguise and attacked it with his blade.
• The Demon Ghost deflected Lu Chuan’s strike, revealed its true form in black mist, and lunged at him.

Lu Chuan fought a Demon Ghost that could evade his attacks and nearly killed him, but his Fierce Tiger Intent manifested as a Martial Soul and drove the creature away. He fled toward Kunlun Martial Arts School while the injured Demon Ghost returned to Ruan Qingyu and demanded Essence Blood.

• Lu Chuan's saber strikes failed to harm the Demon Ghost, which appeared behind him and gravely wounded him with a palm strike.
• Lu Chuan used Myriad Rivers Return to the Sea to refine the Demon Ghost's Demonic energy while retreating.
• Lu Chuan combined Fierce Tiger Intent with the Hurricane Saber Technique, shattering the Demon Ghost's illusions and revealing its true body.
• Lu Chuan's tiger-like saber strikes injured the Demon Ghost, which recognized his Martial Soul and vanished.
• Lu Chuan left the Unfinished Buildings and headed for Kunlun Martial Arts School, relying on healing medicine to endure his injuries.
• Ruan Qingyu spat blood as the Demon Ghost's injured soul returned to her body and demanded Essence Blood.

After Lu Chuan returned to Kunlun Martial Arts School badly wounded from a Demon Ghost, he told He Mingkong that Ruan Qingyu was symbiotic with one and explained his plan to enter the Demon Suppressing Division. He Mingkong warned that the choice would bar him from Kunlun Mountain but promised Lu Chuan protection within the school.

• He Mingkong treated Lu Chuan's injuries and recognized the powerful demonic energy inside him.
• Lu Chuan recounted his encounter with Ruan Qingyu and the Demon Ghost, and He Mingkong questioned how Chen Qingfeng could have remained unaware of their symbiosis.
• Lu Chuan revealed that Chen Qingfeng had promised to recommend him to the Demon Suppressing Division in exchange for helping kill Ruan Qingyu.
• He Mingkong warned that Chen Qingfeng might have deceived Lu Chuan and that joining the Demon Suppressing Division would prevent him from entering Kunlun Mountain.
• Lu Chuan insisted he had made his decision, and He Mingkong agreed not to force him to change it.
• He Mingkong promised that Ruan Qingyu and the Demon Ghosts could not harm Lu Chuan while he remained inside Kunlun Martial Arts School.

Lu Chuan learned from He Mingkong that Martial Souls were embryonic Martial Intent formed by cultivating a Martial Skill to its limit, and he compared them with his own Limit Breaking states. After five days of training, he refined the Demonic energy in his body and his bones grew stronger, leaving him poised to check his Attribute Panel.

• Lu Chuan asked He Mingkong about Martial Souls, and He Mingkong explained how they arose from mastering Martial Skills and drawing on the power of heaven and earth.
• Lu Chuan realized his Limit Breaking states resembled Martial Souls, though he suspected they were not exactly the same.
• He Mingkong advised Lu Chuan to refine the Demonic energy himself, then privately planned to use Ruan Qingyu’s coexistence with a Demon Ghost to target the Chen Family.
• Lu Chuan spent five days practicing the Five Beasts Body Tempering Art and refining the Demonic energy into Internal Strength.
• Lu Chuan expelled the remaining black smoke from his body and sensed that his bones had become much stronger before turning to his Attribute Panel.

Lu Chuan advanced to the late stage of the Eighth Rank Bone Quenching Realm while waiting at Kunlun Martial Arts School, but Shi Qingning called to report that his mother had been poisoned by the Spirit Snake Cult. He left for home with He Mingkong, who revealed that he had exposed the Chen Family’s demonic corruption to a Demon Hunter.

• Lu Chuan reviewed his rapid cultivation progress and decided to keep training while waiting for Chen Qingfeng to act against Ruan Qingyu.
• Shi Qingning called Lu Chuan and told him that the Spirit Snake Cult had poisoned his mother, Liang Ya, with Demon Poison.
• Lu Chuan grabbed his weapons and prepared to leave Kunlun Martial Arts School despite the danger posed by Ruan Qingyu’s people.
• He Mingkong offered to accompany Lu Chuan and revealed that he had alerted a Demon Hunter to the Chen Family’s demonic corruption, putting the family and Chen Qingfeng at risk.
• Lu Chuan questioned He Mingkong’s grudge against Chen Qingfeng, then hurried out of the martial arts school to check on his mother.

Lu Chuan and He Mingkong were ambushed by the Spirit Snake Cult as they hurried toward Lu Chuan’s home. He Mingkong was held back by two transformed cultists, while Lu Chuan fought the rest and killed one; the surrounding attack continued.

• He Mingkong told Lu Chuan that Ruan Qingyu’s plans had been disrupted and that the Demon Hunters and the Demon Suppressing Division were pursuing her.
• As Lu Chuan and He Mingkong took a shortcut toward his home, He Mingkong sensed an ambush and tried to retreat.
• Thirty or forty Spirit Snake Cult members surrounded them and attacked, intending to capture Lu Chuan for their Divine Envoy.
• He Mingkong’s first sword strike sent two cultists flying, but they used Blood Burst Pills and transformed, forcing him into a difficult fight.
• Lu Chuan refused to flee, charged the cultists, and split one of them in two with his Tier 3 Divine Weapon.

Lu Chuan was captured by the Spirit Snake Cult after he was overwhelmed by their attacks. Their masked Divine Envoy took him underground and threw him into a cauldron to refine him into a Blood Fiend Puppet.

• Lu Chuan killed two Spirit Snake Cult believers with single slashes, frightening the remaining cultists.
• The cultists used the Seven Poisons Needle and a barrage of attacks to knock Lu Chuan unconscious, then carried him away while He Mingkong was held back by two fully Demonized believers.
• The Spirit Snake Cult brought Lu Chuan to the Divine Envoy, who recognized his powerful physique as a suitable vessel for a Blood Fiend Puppet.
• The Divine Envoy carried Lu Chuan through a hidden passage to an underground cavern and threw him into a cauldron of boiling red liquid.