Chapter Summaries

Su Fan refused Gong Qian’s request to craft a Dao artifact for his junior sister, and Gong Qian threatened to stop him from leaving Moon Grasping Immortal City. Su Fan’s Spiritual Sense overwhelmed Gong Qian and the other disciples, but a Grand Ancestor arrived and accused him of attacking them.

• Gong Qian asked Su Fan to craft a supreme-grade Dao artifact for his junior sister, but Su Fan refused because he planned to leave the city.
• Gong Qian threatened Su Fan, and Li Ji accused him of colluding with evil cultivators and ordered him to the Law Enforcement Hall.
• Su Fan released a surge of Spiritual Sense that trapped Gong Qian, Li Ji, and the other disciples in terror and overwhelming negative emotions.
• An old cultivator sensed the disturbance and rushed to Su Fan’s courtyard.
• The Grand Ancestor revived the disciples and accused Su Fan of attacking them, while Gong Qian and the others bowed to him.

Su Fan met a Void Refining Stage elder of Moon Grasping Immortal Palace after its disciples threatened him, and the elder chose to calm matters rather than risk fighting him. Su Fan said he would leave Moon Grasping Immortal City soon, and the elder departed after offering help.

• Su Fan bowed to the arriving elder, who recognized his identity and ordered Gong Qian and the other disciples to return to the mountain gate.
• The elder reprimanded the disciples for provoking Su Fan and feared that a confrontation could bring disaster upon Moon Grasping Immortal Palace.
• The elder asked how long Su Fan had lived in Moon Grasping Immortal City, and Su Fan said he had worked as a weapon-refining Attendant at Seven Marvels Pavilion for nearly ten years.
• Su Fan told the elder that he planned to leave and mentioned that the sect's disciples had threatened to stop him from leaving the city.
• The elder offered to let Su Fan stay or to provide assistance before he left, and Su Fan politely declined and offered help in return.
• The elder smiled at Su Fan and vanished from the small courtyard.

The Moon Grasping Immortal Palace punished Gong Qian and his companions harshly after they provoked Su Fan, then launched a sect-wide rectification campaign. Su Fan prepared to leave Moon Grasping Immortal City, while Seven Marvels Pavilion's Immortal Venerable Yan Hai visited to apologize and compensate him after learning who he was.

• The Moon Grasping Immortal Palace revoked Gong Qian's elite disciple status and sentenced him to ten years in Yin Wind Cave, while punishing the other disciples who had accompanied him.
• The Moon Grasping Immortal Palace began a months-long rectification campaign, and Su Fan decided he could no longer remain in the city.
• Su Fan contacted Xue Ming, who promised to arrange a way for him to leave and told him the news would not spread yet.
• Xing Rui brought Immortal Venerable Yan Hai to Su Fan's courtyard, where Yan Hai apologized for the grievance Su Fan had suffered.
• Immortal Venerable Yan Hai gave Su Fan compensation after learning from an informant that the Moon Grasping Immortal Palace had punished Gong Qian because of Su Fan's identity.

After Su Fan accepted gifts from the Seven Marvels Pavilion and several families seeking to appease him, he realized his fearsome reputation had spread to Moon Grasping Immortal City. Evil Buddha Wang De warned him that people at the Moon Grasping Immortal Palace knew his identity, so Su Fan decided he should leave the city soon.

• Immortal Venerable Yan Hai gave Su Fan a Storage Ring and a VIP jade talisman from the Seven Marvels Pavilion before leaving.
• Song Zhiyuan brought Gong Qian's junior sister to apologize for offending Su Fan, then forced a gift from their Household into his hands.
• Elders from other families brought their juniors to apologize and left Su Fan several Storage Rings filled with valuable supplies.
• Su Fan returned to the Portable Secret Realm and told Evil Buddha Wang De about the apologetic visitors.
• Evil Buddha Wang De told Su Fan that Moon Grasping Immortal Palace juniors knew his identity, and Su Fan agreed to leave Moon Grasping Immortal City soon.

After his whereabouts were exposed, Su Fan fled Moon Grasping Immortal City with Yellow Springs Tower’s help and traveled to the Burial Demon Mountain Range for his first mission. He received intelligence on the dangerous target, Yuan Bin, and prepared to hunt him.

• Su Fan messaged Xue Ming after learning his presence in Moon Grasping Immortal City had been exposed, and Xue Ming arranged for him to be met in Li Chen Immortal City.
• Su Fan changed his appearance, left Moon Grasping Immortal City, and traveled for over a month before meeting his contact in Li Chen Immortal City.
• Xue Ming sent Su Fan the details of his first Yellow Springs Tower mission, and Su Fan headed to Lingtai Immortal City in the Burial Demon Mountain Range.
• Su Fan checked into Yellow Springs Tower’s stronghold, Liuxianju, where he received intelligence about the target, Yuan Bin.
• Su Fan learned that Yuan Bin was a brutal Half-step Nascent Soul cultivator who had killed more than ten Yellow Springs Tower assassins and bounty hunters and had evaded capture for nearly ten years.

Su Fan received confirmation that Yuan Bin had returned to Black Wind Stockade and traveled there with a plan to strike before the evil cultivator could escape. He arrived near the stockade and contacted a Yellow Springs Tower informant, then approached in the form of mist.

• Su Fan consulted Evil Buddha Wang De, who advised him to attack Black Wind Stockade directly before Yuan Bin could react.
• Yellow Springs Tower confirmed Yuan Bin had appeared at Black Wind Stockade three days earlier, so Su Fan set out for the remote stronghold.
• A Yellow Springs Tower member guided Su Fan to the teleportation hall, and Su Fan traveled by teleportation and Ghost Crow for half a month to reach the area.
• Su Fan contacted the informant hiding in Black Wind Stockade, who told him to meet at Duzhu Zhai Eatery.
• Su Fan chose not to enter openly and transformed into mist as he drifted toward Black Wind Stockade.

Su Fan entered Black Wind Stockade and rushed to kill Yuan Bin without making an ambush plan. He killed Yuan Bin in moments and confirmed the bounty was complete.

• Su Fan paid the fee to enter Black Wind Stockade and went to meet Jiang Ping at Duzhu Zhai Eatery.
• Su Fan refused to eat and ordered Jiang Ping to take him straight to Yuan Bin's courtyard.
• Su Fan used a Blood Qi Jade Talisman and a Blood Path secret art to locate Yuan Bin, then raised his realm and activated a barrier around Black Wind Stockade.
• Su Fan charged into Yuan Bin's courtyard, cut him in half with Sword Aura, and crushed the demonic smoke escaping from his corpse.
• Su Fan confirmed the mission was complete, while Jiang Ping stared in disbelief at how quickly Yuan Bin had been killed.

Su Fan killed Yuan Bin in Black Wind Stockade and revealed his Yellow Springs Tower identity, provoking the surrounding bandits and evil cultivators. He slaughtered more than a thousand of them with a divine-sense attack, then offered the arriving Deity Transformation Stage leader all the spoils in exchange for ending the dispute.

• Su Fan stored Yuan Bin's two halves in the Gathering Yin Secret Realm and warned Black Wind Stockade's cultivators to stay away while Yellow Springs Tower handled business.
• Jiang Ping tried to flee but found that Su Fan's Seventh-tier Great Formation blocked the way.
• Su Fan opened the vertical eye on his forehead and unleashed a divine-sense attack that killed over a thousand cultivators and knocked several late-Nascent Soul Realm cultivators unconscious.
• Su Fan finished off the unconscious cultivators as Jiang Ping watched in terror, then sensed the Deity Transformation Stage elder approaching.
• The elder demanded an explanation for the slaughter, and Su Fan offered to leave all the spoils of war to Black Wind Stockade.

Su Fan killed the Deity Transformation Stage cultivator from Black Wind Stockade after the man mistook his retreat for weakness. He then destroyed Black Wind Stockade and drew Jiang Ping to his side.

• Su Fan realized the Black Wind Stockade cultivator had mistaken his retreat for weakness and refused the man's demand to surrender.
• Su Fan used the Rakshasa Heaven-Wailing Soul Demon Sound to interrupt the Deity Transformation Stage cultivator's spell, then cut him in half with the Demon Slaying Sword.
• The Black Wind Stockade cultivators fled after witnessing Su Fan kill their Deity Transformation Stage leader.
• Su Fan drew Jiang Ping to him and used Dragon Elephant Stomp to raze Black Wind Stockade to ruins.

Su Fan destroyed Black Wind Stockade, spared the few survivors, and had Sister Zhen collect the stockade’s spoils and Yin Souls. Jiang Ping escaped and reported what happened, but his superior doubted his account and said the organization might question him.

• Su Fan dismissed the formation, let the surviving cultivators flee, and told Jiang Ping he could leave.
• Sister Zhen startled Jiang Ping with a ghostly apparition, then summoned Ghost Soldiers and Ghost Generals to search Black Wind Stockade and collect its spoils and Yin Souls.
• Su Fan and Sister Zhen left the ruined valley, and Jiang Ping fled several thousand miles before sending his superior a report.
• Jiang Ping’s superior questioned his account of Su Fan’s strength and the destruction of Black Wind Stockade.
• Jiang Ping insisted he had told the truth, and his superior agreed to report it but warned that the organization might send people to question him.

After Su Fan returned to Lingtai Immortal City, he learned his catchphrase had made Yellow Springs Tower famous and that he had become an official bounty hunter. He chose the nickname Evil Bone and accepted another mission in the Burial Demon Mountain Range after reviewing the target's information.

• Su Fan returned to Liuxianju, where the innkeeper and attendant treated him with unusual deference and brought him treasured Spirit Tea.
• Su Fan activated his Yellow Springs Tower jade talisman and learned his line about handling business had spread throughout the Burial Demon Mountain Range.
• Xue Ming told Su Fan that his actions had boosted Yellow Springs Tower's reputation and that he was now an official bounty hunter.
• Su Fan tried several nicknames, including Wukong and Bajie, before settling on Evil Bone.
• Xue Ming offered Su Fan another mission, and Su Fan reviewed the target's information before accepting it.

Su Fan accepted the Yellow Springs Tower’s long-unfinished bounty to kill Wei Fu, second-in-command of the Floating Mountain Bandits, whose lair was hidden in Broken Blade Canyon. After considering the canyon’s dangers and Evil Buddha Wang De’s suspicion that the Tower’s local intelligence personnel might be compromised, Su Fan decided to investigate without contacting them at first.

• Su Fan took the bounty mission for Wei Fu because the Floating Mountain Bandits were based in the Burial Demon Mountain Range, though he dismissed the threat they posed.
• Xue Ming sent Su Fan intelligence about Wei Fu and the Floating Mountain Bandits’ suspected hideout in Broken Blade Canyon, where the Tower had failed to locate their lair.
• Su Fan doubted the claim that the bandits hid in a Portable Secret Realm and worried that finding Wei Fu in the sprawling canyon would be difficult.
• Evil Buddha Wang De warned Su Fan that the Yellow Springs Tower’s intelligence personnel in Broken Blade Canyon might have become entangled with local interests.
• Su Fan decided to avoid the Tower’s local intelligence network until he had looked around Broken Blade Canyon himself.

Su Fan reached Broken Blade Canyon and entered Nine Bends Cave using an identity arranged through Ruyi Pavilion. After comparing Ruyi Pavilion’s intelligence on the Floating Mountain Bandits with Yellow Springs Tower’s, he found Yellow Springs Tower’s information lacking and waited for further updates.

• Su Fan contacted Ruyi Pavilion and was escorted into Broken Blade Canyon with a new identity and information about Nine Bends Cave.
• Su Fan entered Nine Bends Cave through its hidden grotto and teleportation arrays.
• Su Fan passed the Pine Wave Inn, Yellow Springs Tower’s meeting point, and checked into another inn across the street.
• Qin Yu of Ruyi Pavilion sent Su Fan intelligence on the Floating Mountain Bandits.
• Su Fan compared the intelligence from Ruyi Pavilion and Yellow Springs Tower, found Yellow Springs Tower’s information incomplete, and decided to wait for more updates.

Su Fan wandered through Nine Bends Cave and learned that Ruyi Pavilion could help him claim the many bounties on the evil cultivator Yuan Bin. After asking about Ruyi Pavilion’s other work, he tentatively accepted a job to escort a VIP’s junior out of the city if it was convenient.

• Su Fan explored Nine Bends Cave’s shops and markets, then returned to the inn and received a message from Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu offered to have Ruyi Pavilion claim the bounties on Yuan Bin through Yellow Springs Tower so Su Fan’s identity would remain secret.
• Su Fan agreed to let Ruyi Pavilion handle the rewards and learned that nearly a hundred sects and Lineages had placed bounties on Yuan Bin.
• Su Fan asked about Ruyi Pavilion’s other work, and Qin Yu offered him a job escorting a VIP client’s junior out of Nine Bends Cave.
• Su Fan tentatively accepted the escort job, telling Qin Yu he might not do it if it proved inconvenient.

Su Fan learned that the Floating Mountain Bandits were preparing an auction and planned to use it to kill Wei Fu, despite warnings about the gang’s powerful backing. After confronting Xue Ming over the mission’s hidden complications, Su Fan accepted it, then received a mysterious Storage Ring protected by a restriction.

• Ruyi Pavilion informed Su Fan that the Floating Mountain Bandits might soon hold an auction, and Su Fan discussed the gang’s powerful backing with Evil Buddha Wang De.
• Su Fan decided he would kill the Floating Mountain Bandits if they obstructed his attempt to kill Wei Fu, even if that brought their patron’s wrath down on him.
• Su Fan confronted Xue Ming through a jade talisman and learned that Xue Ming had assigned him the troublesome mission because he believed Su Fan had no scruples.
• Xue Ming promised to seek a higher commission, but Su Fan ended their conversation and put away the jade talisman.
• An inn shop assistant delivered a Storage Ring to Su Fan, who discovered through his Spiritual Sense that it carried a restriction.

Su Fan investigated Broken Blade Canyon under the identity Xie Gu, while Ruyi Pavilion supplied information and a pass to the Floating Mountain Bandits' auction. He reached the night of the auction and went to Mingxiang Garden, leaving his next move uncertain.

• Qin Yu told Su Fan that the Storage Ring held a premium client's descendant's blood essence and sent him the method to remove its restriction.
• Su Fan disguised himself, met Song Haodong at Pine Wave Inn, and asked him for information about Wei Fu.
• Song Haodong secretly marked Su Fan and arranged with an accomplice to have him killed, while Su Fan sensed the mark and suspected Yellow Springs Tower's local network was compromised.
• Qin Yu sent Su Fan information about Wei Fu and the Floating Mountain Bandits, and Ruyi Pavilion arranged an auction pass for him.
• Su Fan spent several days surveying Nine Bends Cave and attended an auction, but found nothing he wanted.
• On the night of the Floating Mountain Bandits' auction, Su Fan went to Mingxiang Garden and prepared to cultivate with a Golden Core Realm female cultivator.

Su Fan used a disguise and a series of secret teleportation arrays to reach the Floating Mountain Bandits' auction, where he discovered Song Haodong and his target Wei Fu among the attendees. As the auction began, Su Fan borrowed power from the Witchcraft School Upper Realm Big Shot to raise his cultivation to the late Deity Transformation Stage.

• Su Fan left Mingxiang Garden in mist form, evaded Song Haodong's watchers, and changed his appearance before entering a concealed shop.
• Su Fan used his auction token to pass through multiple miniature Teleportation Arrays and reach the Floating Mountain Bandits' secret auction venue.
• Su Fan entered a secret realm with the other cloaked attendees and sensed Song Haodong among the crowd.
• Su Fan identified Du Cang as the auction's leader and Wei Fu as his target, while noting an unfamiliar cultivator seated beside Du Cang.
• Su Fan asked the Witchcraft School Upper Realm Big Shot to raise his cultivation to the late Deity Transformation Stage, and a blood-colored pillar of light enveloped him.

Su Fan attacked the Floating Mountain Bandits after identifying himself as a member of the Yellow Springs Tower, killing their forces and devastating their courtyard with his immortal hammer. He killed Wei Fu and turned toward the battered Du Cang.

• Su Fan appeared before the Floating Mountain Bandits, and the cultivators recognized his claim to belong to the Yellow Springs Tower.
• Su Fan used a Devil Race divine ability to kill more than a hundred bandits surrounding him.
• Su Fan struck Du Cang with the Demon Subduing Heaven Splitting Mountain Suppressing Hammer, destroying the courtyard and blasting Du Cang away.
• Su Fan caught Wei Fu as he tried to flee, snapped his neck, and destroyed his Yin God.
• Su Fan stored Wei Fu's corpse and looked toward Du Cang.

Su Fan devastated the Floating Mountain Bandits with the Demon Subduing Heaven Splitting Mountain Suppressing Hammer, leaving their secret realm close to collapse. After killing Du Cang and capturing his Yin God, Su Fan sensed another survivor nearby.

• Su Fan's hammer blows overwhelmed Du Cang and the Floating Mountain Bandits, while the auction guests discovered the secret realm's exit had been sealed.
• Du Cang and the other bandits attacked Su Fan, but his hammer shattered their assault, wrecked Du Cang's Natal Magic Treasure, and killed the other Deity Transformation Stage cultivators.
• As the secret realm began to collapse, Xia Houyue, Yan Fei, Xiao Ji, and Hong Wankun revealed their identities and begged Su Fan to stop attacking.
• Su Fan stomped Du Cang to death, captured the Yin God that escaped his corpse, and prepared to give it to Evil Buddha Wang De.
• Su Fan sensed that the Deity Transformation Stage cultivator who had been sitting beside Du Cang had also survived.

Su Fan defeated the Floating Mountain Bandits, captured a Black Robe Path member and Song Haodong, and reported his completed mission to the Yellow Springs Tower. After news of the massacre spread through Wuyou Heaven, he waited to see whether the Tower would protect him from the Black Robe Path.

• Su Fan learned the surviving bandit belonged to the Black Robe Path, spared him, knocked him unconscious, and stored him in his Portable Secret Realm for Qin Yu to negotiate over.
• Su Fan seized Song Haodong, told him he would be handed to the Yellow Springs Tower’s Law Enforcement Hall, and stored him unconscious in the Portable Secret Realm.
• Su Fan opened the secret realm exit for the auction attendees, cleaned up the battlefield with Sister Zhen, and returned to the inn in his Ruyi Pavilion identity.
• Su Fan told Xue Ming he had completed the mission by executing Wei Fu and revealed Song Haodong’s betrayal, but withheld the Black Robe Path’s involvement.
• Su Fan asked Qin Yu about the Black Robe Path, explained the capture, and left the negotiations to Ruyi Pavilion.
• Word spread that Su Fan had wiped out the Floating Mountain Bandits, and he waited to learn whether the Yellow Springs Tower would shelter him from the Black Robe Path.