Chapter Summaries

Su Fan took charge of the Rogue Cultivators assigned to the Northern Dome Immortal Sect’s Law Enforcement Hall and challenged them to defeat him if they refused his orders. He left the gathered cultivators stunned after catching Luo Hu’s top-grade dao artifact bare-handed and overpowering him in a direct clash.

• Senior Brother Lifeng introduced Su Fan as the Law Enforcement Hall executive responsible for areas and resources outside the mountain gate.
• Su Fan demanded that the Rogue Cultivators follow his orders or leave, prompting them to erupt in protest.
• Su Fan offered to excuse anyone who could defeat him, then singled out the body cultivator Luo Hu to fight.
• Luo Hu secretly launched his top-grade dao artifact and charged Su Fan using his body-refining technique.
• Su Fan caught the dao artifact bare-handed, knocked Luo Hu flying, and repeatedly slammed him into the ground.

Su Fan subdued Luo Hu, exposed Huang Tao as the host of a Foreign Great Demon's Demonic Soul, and destroyed it with a sword strike containing Law Power. As reinforcements approached, Su Fan stayed behind to watch over the Rogue Cultivators.

• Su Fan healed Luo Hu enough to survive, ordered him to follow, and warned the Rogue Cultivators not to challenge him.
• Su Fan selected Huang Tao and killed him with the Withered Wood Blood Transformation Seal, revealing a Foreign Great Demon's Demonic Soul inside him.
• Su Fan fought the Foreign Great Demon's Demonic Soul with the Vajra Demon Extinguishing Great Hand Seal, while Senior Brother Lifeng activated a Distress Flare.
• A sword strike containing Law Power destroyed the Demonic Soul, astonishing Luo Hu, Senior Brother Lifeng, and the other Rogue Cultivators.
• Su Fan sensed the sect's reinforcements approaching and stayed in the valley to keep watch while Senior Brother Lifeng and the Law Enforcement Hall stewards went to greet them.

Su Fan secured rewards and two Cave Mansions after helping Northern Dome Immortal Sect handle the demonic cultivator’s attempted infiltration. He then took charge of the outer Law Enforcement Hall in Northern Dome Immortal City and finished planning its operations with Senior Brother Lifeng.

• Immortal Venerable Shao Hua framed the demonic cultivator’s killing as a joint sect operation and promised rewards to Su Fan and the participating Rogue Cultivators.
• Senior Brother Lifeng arranged two Cave Mansions for Su Fan and gave him two Defensive Immortal Arrays.
• Su Fan chose a secluded Cave Mansion outside Northern Dome Immortal City, where Sister Zhen and her forces built several Thatched Cottages.
• Senior Brother Lifeng summoned Su Fan to the city’s Law Enforcement Hall station and introduced Lu Yan as his assistant.
• Su Fan and Senior Brother Lifeng reviewed personnel and resources and completed the outer Law Enforcement Hall’s arrangements by evening.

Su Fan received a generous reward from Northern Dome Immortal Sect, rejected attempts to connect him with elite disciples and recruit him as a live-in son-in-law, and handed the Outer Sect Law Enforcement Hall’s daily management to Lu Yan. Senior Brother Lifeng later summoned Su Fan to Northern Dome Immortal City to discuss something, leaving Su Fan expecting another approach from the sect’s Lineages.

• Senior Brother Lifeng gave Su Fan a Storage Ring containing five thousand Merit Points, rare Nascent Soul pills, a Seventh-grade Immortal Talisman, and two powerful Immortal Formations.
• Su Fan declined Lifeng’s invitation to meet elite disciples, then learned from Shen Fang that several Lineages wanted to recruit him as a live-in son-in-law.
• Su Fan arranged the Outer Sect Law Enforcement Hall’s personnel and affairs, handed its management to Lu Yan, and appointed Luo Hu as an inspector.
• Su Fan spent his days cultivating in his Cave Mansion while Lu Yan and Luo Hu reported on the mostly quiet Law Enforcement Hall.
• Senior Brother Lifeng contacted Su Fan and asked him to come to Northern Dome Immortal City that night to talk, and Su Fan agreed.

Su Fan rejected Senior Brother Lifeng’s efforts to arrange a marriage that would connect him to the Chen family, then withdrew to a quiet life of cultivation and studying formations. After several peaceful months, Lu Yan summoned him to the city because Northern Dome Immortal Sect disciples had clashed with Tianyi Sword Sect and been injured.

• Su Fan arrived at Dongli Pavilion, where Senior Brother Lifeng introduced him to Chen Qing and other disciples from powerful Lineages.
• Su Fan refused Senior Brother Lifeng’s advice to pursue a marriage alliance with the Chen family, and Chen Qing left after concluding he had rejected their offer.
• Su Fan left Dongli Pavilion and spent the following months cultivating and studying the Path of Formations while keeping a low profile.
• Senior Brother Lifeng stopped contacting Su Fan, while Lu Yan, Luo Hu, Wei Tao, Shen Fang, and another sect disciple remained part of his occasional communications.
• Lu Yan messaged Su Fan and asked him to come into the city after Northern Dome Immortal Sect disciples were beaten and injured in a conflict with Tianyi Sword Sect.

Su Fan was summoned to Northern Dome Immortal City after Tianyi Sword Sect cultivators injured Northern Dome Immortal Sect disciples and refused to cooperate with Law Enforcement Hall. As the standoff neared violence, Chen Qing and the other elites suspected the provocation was a ploy to weaken the sect, and someone suddenly landed before Lu Yan.

• Lu Yan contacted Su Fan after Wu Yue and four other Tianyi Sword Sect cultivators refused to go to the Law Enforcement Hall over the disciples they had injured.
• Wu Yue drew his flying sword, and the other sword cultivators followed, driving the surrounding Northern Dome Immortal Sect disciples into a panicked retreat.
• Ming Ru and the other elite disciples sought help through their connections, but Chen Qing's friends warned her that Tianyi Sword Sect cultivators were dangerous and difficult to approach.
• Chen Qing suspected the sword cultivators had deliberately provoked the sect to draw out its Deity Transformation elders and damage its standing in the Falling Cloud Mountain Range.
• Lu Yan sensed the sword cultivators' killing intent as the sect's elders stayed away, and a person landed in front of him with a thunderous crash.

Fan Su confronted the Tianyi Sword Sect sword cultivators after they injured a Northern Dome Immortal Sect disciple, and he demanded that they submit to the Law Enforcement Hall. As the sect disciples evacuated and raised defensive barriers, Feng Yue attacked Fan Su with a powerful flying sword.

• Fan Su arrived and took charge after Lu Yan explained that the Tianyi Sword Sect cultivators had seized seats and severed a disciple's arm.
• Fan Su identified himself as a Law Enforcement Hall officer and demanded that the attacker sever his own arm while the others awaited judgment.
• The sword cultivators refused, so Fan Su ordered Lu Yan to clear the area and unleashed an overwhelming pressure that forced everyone else to retreat.
• Senior Brother Ming Ru and the other disciples raised layers of defensive barriers around the street, while Chen Qing watched Fan Su from afar.
• Feng Yue rallied the sword cultivators, then formed a sword incantation and sent a flying sword toward Fan Su, destroying buildings in its path.

Su Fan defeated Feng Yue and the other Tianyi Sword Sect sword cultivators, then ordered the Law Enforcement Hall to take them into custody. A Deity Transformation Stage sword cultivator arrived and urged Su Fan to leave Northern Dome Immortal Sect, but Su Fan affirmed his loyalty to his sect.

• Su Fan knocked away Feng Yue's flying sword with the Great Ming King Annihilation Seal, then batted aside four more swords with his bare hands.
• When Feng Yue and the other sword cultivators refused to surrender, Su Fan used the Heaven and Earth Overturning Seal to devastate several streets and incapacitate them without killing them.
• Su Fan carried the injured sword cultivators to the ground and ordered Lu Yan and the Law Enforcement Hall disciples to arrest them.
• A Deity Transformation Stage sword cultivator arrived, shattered the defensive array with his flying sword, and pressed the disciples down with his killing intent.
• The sword cultivator urged Su Fan to join Zhentian Dao Palace, but Su Fan declared that he was grateful to Northern Dome Immortal Sect and would protect it.

Su Fan defeated five Tianyi Sword Sect sword cultivators, then let Immortal Venerable Ru Feng settle the dispute and collect compensation for the damaged streets. He withdrew from the attention that followed, and Ru Feng visited his Cave Mansion to urge him to connect with the sect; Su Fan said he wanted to cultivate quietly and avoid empty fame.

• Su Fan refused Immortal Venerable Cang Hai's attempt to take the battered Tianyi Sword Sect disciples away without addressing their attack and the damage they caused.
• Immortal Venerable Ru Feng arrived, let Cang Hai take the disciples, and secured Spirit Crystals for the ruined streets, which he gave to Su Fan.
• Su Fan left Northern Dome Immortal City, posted a notice refusing visitors, and ignored the messages and attention after the incident spread across Crimson Cloud Heaven.
• Ru Feng broke through Su Fan's Cave Mansion formation and found him relaxing by a waterfall instead of recovering from injuries.
• Su Fan told Ru Feng he wanted to cultivate quietly, while Ru Feng advised him to interact more with his sect brothers.

Immortal Venerable Ru Feng recruited Su Fan as his disciple, offering him access to Northern Dome Immortal Sect’s formation inheritance and private lessons to keep him from leaving. After the sect’s leaders welcomed him with lavish gifts, Su Fan discovered that one Integration expert had given him an Eighth-grade Immortal Talisman, and he eagerly prepared to inspect the rest.

• Immortal Venerable Ru Feng explained that Su Fan was crucial to Northern Dome Immortal Sect and offered him the Secret Hall inheritance, formation materials, and monthly private lessons.
• Su Fan accepted Immortal Venerable Ru Feng as his master and declined to require a formal discipleship ceremony.
• The sect master and nearly all its high-ranking elders attended Su Fan’s ceremony and gave him numerous meeting gifts.
• Su Fan returned to his Portable Secret Realm and began examining the gifts, finding an Eighth-grade Immortal Talisman from an Integration expert.
• Sister Zhen worried over Su Fan’s trembling excitement and brewed him Spirit Tea until he calmed down.

Su Fan examined the powerful defensive treasures and Witch Artifact given to him by the Northern Dome Immortal Sect, then spent the following weeks studying under Immortal Venerable Ru Feng. When a disciple from the Tianyi Sword Sect challenged him, Su Fan refused to accept, leaving Luo Hu stunned by his disregard for the challenge custom.

• Su Fan discovered an Eighth-grade Nine Dragon Crimson Firmament Armor Immortal Talisman and an Incarnation Witch Puppet that could create a powerful incarnation and save him from death.
• Su Fan reviewed the Northern Dome Immortal Sect's lavish rewards and meeting gifts, then resolved to help the sect establish itself in the Falling Cloud Mountain Range.
• Over the next month, Su Fan stayed in his Cave Mansion, rejected a proposed marriage, and struggled with the formation studies assigned by Immortal Venerable Ru Feng.
• Luo Hu visited Su Fan to report on inspections of the sect's marketplaces and resource sites, while Lu Yan brought news of a challenge letter from the Tianyi Sword Sect.
• Su Fan refused the challenge and told Lu Yan that he did not have to accept, leaving Luo Hu bewildered as Su Fan returned to his meal.

Su Fan confronted Tianyi Sword Sect cultivator Li Guangdao after Li attacked Northern Dome Immortal City's defensive array to force a duel. Su Fan defeated him with one Law-infused sword strike, then demanded the other sword cultivators surrender Li for arrest, and advanced when they refused.

• Rumors spread that Su Fan had refused Tianyi Sword Sect's challenge, and Immortal Venerable Ru Feng questioned him about it.
• Su Fan sensed a disturbance at Northern Dome Immortal City and found Li Guangdao and more than a dozen Tianyi Sword Sect cultivators outside its gates.
• Li Guangdao admitted attacking the city's defensive array to draw Su Fan out and challenge him, but Su Fan ordered him to surrender for arrest.
• Su Fan struck Li Guangdao down with one Limitless Slash, and the watching Northern Dome Immortal Sect disciples cheered.
• Su Fan invoked the sect's authority to arrest Li Guangdao, but the other sword cultivators formed a formation to protect him.
• The sword cultivators refused to surrender Li Guangdao, so Su Fan walked toward them with the Demon Slaying Sword.

Su Fan defeated the Tianyi Sword Sect cultivators, then learned that evil cultivators were gathering near the Falling Cloud Mountain Range. At his master's test, Immortal Venerable Ru Feng discovered Su Fan's demonic body cultivation and offered to teach him formations, but Su Fan struggled with his lessons.

• Su Fan used Whirlwind Slash to defeat the Tianyi Sword Sect sword cultivators, and Lu Yan took them to the Law Enforcement Hall for treatment.
• Su Fan told Lu Yan to send any further Tianyi Sword Sect trouble to Senior Brother Lifeng, then spoke with Shen Fang, who had just reached the Nascent Soul Realm.
• Su Fan exchanged messages about evil cultivators gathering in the Falling Cloud Mountain Range and noticed missing-person notices linked to Wulong Mountain City.
• Immortal Venerable Ru Feng examined Su Fan's Demonic Saint Body Art and asked how he had survived cultivating it as a Qi Refining cultivator.
• Immortal Venerable Ru Feng urged Su Fan to stop cultivating demonic techniques and offered to teach him the Path of Formations; Su Fan failed his test and left with more homework.

Su Fan met Senior Brother Lifeng, received the Shen Family’s belated thanks, and arranged for Shen Fang to join the outer Law Enforcement Hall. After studying the family’s formation inheritance and struggling with Immortal Venerable Ru Feng’s lessons, Su Fan left for Chiyun Market when Luo Hu reported trouble.

• Senior Brother Lifeng told Su Fan that the Ten Great Super Immortal Sects were withdrawing and that Northern Dome Immortal Sect planned to defend its territory against the advancing Rogue Cultivator Alliance.
• Shen Jing and Shen Fang visited Su Fan to offer the Shen Family’s thanks, and Su Fan accepted their gifts after rebuking them for their delay.
• Shen Fang asked to follow Su Fan, so Su Fan assigned him to patrol with Luo Hu in the outer Law Enforcement Hall.
• Su Fan discovered that the Shen Family’s Storage Ring contained secret formation-inheritance Jade Slips and spent the following days studying them alongside his master’s assignments.
• Luo Hu messaged Su Fan from Chiyun Market and told him to come, so Su Fan set out from his Cave Mansion.

Su Fan investigated a series of evil-cultivator attacks in Chiyun Market, destroyed the Ghoulish Demon Shadow, and captured the evil cultivator behind it. He left the market sealed while Luo Hu began an interrogation, and scolded Shen Fang for teasing him about Chen Qing and his sister.

• Su Fan arrived at Chiyun Market and learned from Luo Hu that evil cultivators had left shriveled corpses in several shops.
• Su Fan followed a black shadow from a shop and destroyed the possessed Law Enforcement Hall disciple and the Ghoulish Demon Shadow with lightning and his swords.
• Su Fan ordered Luo Hu to seal the market, then used his Spiritual Sense and scent-identification method to locate the evil cultivator hiding in a shop.
• Su Fan knocked out and captured the evil cultivator, then told Luo Hu to arrange an interrogation.
• Su Fan learned that Chen Qing had joined the Law Enforcement Hall and told Shen Fang to stop joking about her and his sister.

Su Fan caught the evil cultivator behind the attacks on Chiyun Market and learned that Demon Person Mansion had commissioned evil cultivators to cause trouble around the Northern Dome Immortal Sect. As the attacks spread, Chen Qing helped Su Fan master his formation homework, and he left her company while Shen Fang complained about being their third wheel.

• Su Fan learned from Luo Hu that the captured evil cultivator had taken a bounty mission from Demon Person Mansion to cause panic near the Northern Dome Immortal Sect, then ordered the culprit killed.
• Senior Brother Lifeng confirmed the bounty and said he would send help, while Lu Yan reported another incident in Lanhe Market, prompting Su Fan to head there with Luo Hu and Shen Fang.
• Su Fan hunted down more than a dozen evil cultivators across the sect’s markets and resource points, discouraging further attacks.
• At a Spirit Field resource point, Chen Qing joined Su Fan and Shen Fang; she recognized Su Fan’s formation homework and demonstrated her exceptional talent by drawing runes in the air.
• Chen Qing explained Su Fan’s difficult formation lessons over the following days, helping him master his homework while Shen Fang grumbled about being left out as their third wheel.

Su Fan ended the evil cultivator attacks on the Northern Dome Immortal Sect and helped Shen Fang and the other disciples gain combat experience. As the Rogue Cultivator Alliance began sending people south, Su Fan ordered the sect to arrest or kill anyone who caused trouble.

• Shen Fang killed a Foreign Great Demon with Su Fan’s help, and Su Fan told him that he still needed more experience to advance on the Path of the Sword.
• Su Fan confirmed that the evil cultivator attacks had stopped after he killed dozens of attackers and made the bounty mission on the Demon Person Mansion trading platform too dangerous to accept.
• The Rogue Cultivator Alliance failed to learn the truth about Su Fan’s strength and began preparing to confront the Northern Dome Immortal Sect directly.
• Su Fan shared a hotpot meal with Shen Fang and Chen Qing, who enjoyed spending time with him.
• Lu Yan reported that large numbers of rogue cultivators had appeared in several market towns, and Su Fan ordered the sect to arrest or kill anyone who caused trouble.

Su Fan learned that the Rogue Cultivator Alliance was preparing to provoke the Northern Dome Immortal Sect and waited for its factions to make a move. When trouble broke out at multiple markets, he left to respond, while Chen Qing stayed behind and worried about him.

• Su Fan told Chen Qing and Shen Fang that he would kill the Rogue Cultivator Alliance members if they attacked, and the two were alarmed by his confidence.
• Rogue cultivators flooded Northern Dome Immortal City and nearby markets, creating constant disputes that overwhelmed the Law Enforcement Hall.
• While disguised in a restaurant, Su Fan heard that the Heavenly Rift Valley planned to stir up trouble and concluded it would lead the Alliance's first attack.
• Su Fan returned to the city Law Enforcement Hall, where Chen Qing gave him a storage ring of life-saving items before he left for the White Jade Market.
• Lu Yan reported a standoff at White Jade Market, and Luo Hu then reported unrest at Luotian Market; Su Fan ordered Luo Hu to contain the situation and wait for further news.

Su Fan crushed Rogue Cultivators causing trouble at White Jade Market, then publicly crippled and displayed members of Heavenly Rift Valley to provoke its leaders. He intended to make Northern Dome Immortal Sect’s territory too dangerous to challenge, despite criticism from the crowd and concern from his master.

• Su Fan arrived at White Jade Market and defeated more than ten Nascent Soul Realm Rogue Cultivators who were confronting Lu Yan and the Law Enforcement Hall disciples.
• Su Fan drove the market’s watching Rogue Cultivators away, crippled the troublemakers, and ordered them taken to Northern Dome Immortal City.
• At dusk, Su Fan had dozens of Rogue Cultivators from Heavenly Rift Valley hung from giant logs outside the city after crippling their cultivation.
• Su Fan dismissed Lu Yan’s concerns about provoking public outrage and explained that he wanted to draw Heavenly Rift Valley’s leaders out.
• Immortal Venerable Ru Feng warned Su Fan that his actions could turn everyone against him, but Su Fan insisted that harsh measures were necessary to establish the sect’s authority.

Su Fan provoked Heavenly Rift Valley by crippling and publicly displaying dozens of its cultivators, forcing Northern Dome Immortal Sect and the Rogue Cultivator Alliance’s powerful elders into a tense confrontation. He returned to his Cave Mansion and prepared for a trap, while Chen Qing gave him an immortal formation for protection.

• Su Fan’s actions drew Heavenly Rift Valley’s cultivators and powerful elders to Northern Dome Immortal City, where Northern Dome Immortal Sect’s Void Refining elders confronted the Rogue Cultivator Alliance’s elders before both sides withdrew.
• Immortal Venerable Changshan demanded that Northern Dome Immortal Sect return the captured cultivators, and Su Fan had Lu Yan and Luo Hu take them down from the trees and hand them over.
• Su Fan’s master, Immortal Venerable Ru Feng, urged him to return to the sect, but Su Fan refused and told Lu Yan and Luo Hu to keep the Law Enforcement Hall out of confrontations with Heavenly Rift Valley.
• Su Fan returned to his Cave Mansion and explained to himself that he had provoked Heavenly Rift Valley to make them set a killing trap, which would let him fight without restraint.
• Chen Qing and Shen Fang visited Su Fan and urged him to be cautious, and Chen Qing lent him an immortal formation that could hold off even a Void Refining Supreme for half an hour.