Chapter Summaries

Su Fan secured Yellow Springs Tower’s protection after imprisoning a member of the Black Robe Path, then searched for a Divine Soul Secret Method to temper his Dao Heart. He asked Xue Ming to advance him ten thousand Merit Points, and Xue Ming readily agreed, leaving Su Fan suspecting he had been drawn deeper into the organization.

• Xue Ming told Su Fan that Yellow Springs Tower would handle the Black Robe Path and take responsibility for concealing its involvement in the mission.
• Su Fan asked about exchanging Merit Points for techniques and learned his two missions had earned him 105 points, far too few for the methods he wanted.
• Xue Ming offered to advance Su Fan up to five thousand Merit Points, prompting Su Fan to inspect the bounty board for ways to repay the debt.
• Su Fan found a Divine Soul Secret Method suited to him that cost ten thousand Merit Points and asked Xue Ming to advance that amount.
• Xue Ming agreed immediately, and Su Fan felt he had been played again as Yellow Springs Tower sought to bind him more firmly to the organization.

Su Fan exchanged Merit Points for a dangerous Divine Soul secret art, then discovered the Floating Mountain Bandits’ stolen auction goods in their Storage Rings. After hearing how his reputation had frightened cultivators in Nine Bends Cave, he accepted an escort mission and tracked its target to a shop holding an auction, where he waited across the street.

• Su Fan obtained the Netherworld Heavenly Demon Dharma Idol Soul-Refining Art but decided to postpone practicing it because of its risks.
• Su Fan searched Du Cang’s, Wei Fu’s, and the other bandits’ Storage Rings and found the rare cultivation resources they had intended to auction.
• Su Fan overheard cultivators discussing his slaughter of the Floating Mountain Bandits and worrying that he might target them next.
• Su Fan spoke with Qin Yu through Ruyi Pavilion’s jade token and left the ransom negotiations and bounty claims to the pavilion.
• Su Fan accepted the escort mission, used a Blood Path technique to track its target, and found the target inside a luxurious shop holding an auction.
• After a shop cultivator turned Su Fan away, he waited in a teahouse across the street, suspecting the mission target belonged to a super sect.

Su Fan followed three wealthy young cultivators through Nine Bends Cave as part of a protection mission, only to discover that several Deity Transformation Stage cultivators were already guarding them. After the heirs returned to their hotel, Su Fan stayed outside and marked several spies with his aura.

• Su Fan learned from Qin Yu that he was one of five cultivators hired by Ruyi Pavilion to escort the young heir safely out of Broken Blade Canyon.
• Su Fan followed the three young cultivators as they visited luxurious shops and auctions, attracting the attention of numerous groups in Nine Bends Cave.
• The four other Deity Transformation Stage cultivators approached the heirs and offered protection, but the heirs resisted and refused to accept their help.
• The cultivators continued following the heirs, discouraging several would-be robbers, while other groups sent spies to track them.
• The three heirs returned to their hotel with the four cultivators standing guard, and Su Fan walked around outside, leaving his aura on several spies.

Su Fan received word that Yellow Springs Tower had negotiated with Black Robe Path and arranged a new identity and hiding place for him, while Ruyi Pavilion prepared reinforcements for the escort mission. The next morning, Su Fan went to hand Song Haodong over to Yellow Springs Tower’s Law Enforcement Hall and sensed hostility from its cultivators.

• Su Fan learned from Xue Ming that Yellow Springs Tower had negotiated with Black Robe Path, planned to take Song Haodong, and arranged Su Fan’s future hiding place.
• Su Fan told Qin Yu that Ruyi Pavilion should handle the exchange with Black Robe Path, and Qin Yu reported that powerful reinforcements were heading to Broken Blade Canyon for the escort mission.
• Su Fan guarded the playboys through the night while monitoring their aura and the spies outside the hotel.
• After Xue Ming summoned him, Su Fan went to a courtyard and handed his Identity Jade Talisman to Yellow Springs Tower’s Law Enforcement Hall cultivators, sensing hostility as they led him inside.

Su Fan confronted Yellow Springs Tower officials over Song Haodong’s collusion with the Floating Mountain Bandits and the corruption surrounding Broken Blade Canyon. After exposing the officials protecting Song, he asked to leave the organization and demanded permission to purge it before he went.

• Su Fan presented the unconscious Song Haodong to the gathered Yellow Springs Tower officials, and a relative accused him of crippling Song’s cultivation.
• Su Fan subdued the accuser with a single strike after explaining that Song had colluded with bandit chiefs Du Cang and Wei Fu.
• Enforcement Hall cultivators accused Su Fan of harming a fellow disciple, while the Hall Master watched without intervening.
• Su Fan denounced the officials for exploiting Broken Blade Canyon and revealed that Song’s control of its intelligence network served their private interests.
• Su Fan asked the Hall Master to let him withdraw from Yellow Springs Tower and purge the corrupt officials first, then unleashed his killing intent across the chamber.

Su Fan revealed his identity as the Great Demon and asked to cleanse the Song household, but the Enforcement Hall master intervened and punished Song Tai and several members of the family. Su Fan then requested to leave Yellow Springs Tower, leaving his departure in the tower master's hands as the master anticipated a major upheaval within the organization.

• Su Fan unleashed a terrifying aura, but the Enforcement Hall master dispelled it with a cough and identified him as Su Fan.
• Su Fan admitted his identity, frightening the Yellow Springs Tower cultivators and Song Haodong's relatives.
• Su Fan asked permission to cleanse the Lineage, and the master promised the Enforcement Hall would give him an explanation while declining to punish him for crippling Song Haodong.
• The master knocked Song Tai unconscious, ordered several Song household members seized, and accused Song Tai of shielding his relatives.
• Su Fan bowed to the master and requested to withdraw from Yellow Springs Tower, but the master said only the tower master could decide.
• The master reflected that Yellow Springs Tower's entrenched corruption would likely lead to a storm of blood and violence.

Su Fan left Yellow Springs Tower’s Enforcement Hall after the hall master promised an explanation over the Song family, then waited at his hotel while watching the Ruyi Pavilion mission target. After Qin Yu revealed that the target was a female cultivator, Su Fan suspected she had escaped by disguising herself as one of three women he had passed, and he alerted the other hunters to check her room.

• Su Fan left after the Enforcement Hall hall master assured him that Yellow Springs Tower would deal with the Song family.
• The hall master explained that Song Tai and his family had abused their influence in the organization and that the incident could help the tower’s leaders address its corruption.
• Su Fan returned to the hotel, confirmed the mission target’s aura was still there, and studied the Netherworld Heavenly Demon Dharma Idol Visualization Soul-Refining Art while he waited.
• Qin Yu told Su Fan that the target was a female cultivator who might have changed her appearance and aura.
• Su Fan found the target’s apparent aura weak and unstable, suspected she had escaped in disguise, and asked Qin Yu to have the other mission takers verify the room.

Su Fan tracked the young women to Mingxiang Garden and discovered they had come to Broken Blade Canyon hoping to see him, the notorious Great Demon. After confirming their location, he told Qin Yu to send the Ruyi Pavilion’s clients to watch them while he stayed out of sight.

• Su Fan followed the young women’s scent to a private tea room at Mingxiang Garden.
• Su Fan used the Witchcraft School senior’s spell to overhear the women discussing their plan to leave Broken Blade Canyon and their desire to see the Great Demon.
• Su Fan realized the women were looking for him and waited while recovering his soul with a pill.
• Qin Yu told Su Fan that Ruyi Pavilion’s clients had searched the guest room and found the women were not there.
• Su Fan told Qin Yu the women were in the Qingling Pavilion tea room and instructed him to send the clients without mentioning Su Fan.

Su Fan saw bandit cultivators seize Luo Xiwen and kill the two women with her, so he raised his cultivation to the Deity Transformation Stage and attacked them. He crushed the captors in combat, leaving Luo Xiwen rescued amid the destruction of Mingxiang Garden.

• Su Fan sensed a group of bandit cultivators arrive at Mingxiang Garden and recognized that they were targeting Luo Xiwen.
• The bandits broke into Qingling Pavilion, killed Luo Xiwen’s companions Qingyi and Bingli, and abducted Luo Xiwen.
• Su Fan asked the Upper Realm expert from the Witchcraft School to raise his cultivation to the Deity Transformation Stage, then charged the bandits.
• Su Fan shattered one bandit’s Decay Black Flame Poison Fire Sha and battered him with close-range attacks.
• A second Deity Transformation Stage bandit tried to flee, but Su Fan threw the Demon Subduing Heaven Splitting Mountain Suppressing Hammer and killed him, destroying the teahouse in the blast.

Su Fan rescued Luo Xiwen from an attack at the Mingxiang Garden teahouse, but learned that she was the target of a larger plot and that Ruyi Pavilion’s other clients were trapped. He decided to keep her hidden in Nine Bends Cave until help arrived, and asked Qin Yu whether Ruyi Pavilion had a safe place there.

• Su Fan used his ninth-rank immortal artifact to destroy the teahouse, rescued Luo Xiwen, and escaped into an alley as cultivators converged on the ruins.
• Luo Xiwen grieved for her two murdered friends and demanded that Su Fan help her hunt down the attackers, but he focused on contacting Qin Yu.
• Qin Yu told Su Fan that the other clients were trapped at their hotel and that the attackers’ knowledge of Luo Xiwen’s name made the incident serious.
• Qin Yu revealed that Luo Xiwen’s mission came from a gold-card client, while Su Fan learned her household’s ancestor was in the Integration Stage.
• Su Fan decided not to leave Broken Blade Canyon and asked Qin Yu whether Ruyi Pavilion had a place to hide in Nine Bends Cave until help arrived.

Su Fan hid Luo Xiwen in a secret chamber and demanded better pay from Ruyi Pavilion after the escort mission became more dangerous. As Luo Xiwen grieved for her dead friends, she shared precious tea and incense with him, leaving Su Fan impressed by her wealth.

• Su Fan disguised Luo Xiwen and hid her in a secret chamber beneath a shop in Nine Bends Cave.
• Su Fan told Qin Yu that the changed danger of the mission required a much higher commission, and Qin Yu assured him Ruyi Pavilion would pay.
• Luo Xiwen said she wanted revenge for her two dead friends and explained that her family would not act if they knew she was safe.
• Luo Xiwen gave Su Fan tea stolen from her ancestor and lit incense that helped restore his Spiritual Sense.
• Luo Xiwen offered Su Fan several boxes of Spirit Tea, and he accepted the gifts inwardly despite pretending to refuse.

Su Fan learned that Luo Xiwen had fled an arranged marriage because romance novels had left her longing for a fictional Great Demon, and she had come to the Burial Demon Mountain Range hoping to find him. She revealed that she knew Su Fan had joined Yellow Springs Tower and vowed to avenge her two slain fellow disciples.

• Luo Xiwen explained that she had run away because she felt no affection for the excellent man her family had chosen as her Dao Companion.
• Luo Xiwen showed Su Fan her favorite romance storybooks and explained that she liked dark villains and Great Demons.
• Luo Xiwen said she and her fellow disciples had come to Broken Blade Canyon hoping to find storybook-like cultivators, but Su Fan warned her that the region was dangerous and lawless.
• Luo Xiwen revealed that she had heard Su Fan was in the Burial Demon Mountain Range and had joined Yellow Springs Tower, prompting Su Fan to plan to leave after his current job.
• Luo Xiwen defended Su Fan against rumors that he was vicious and said she would avenge her two fellow disciples, whom she described as her best sisters.

Su Fan learned that Old Ancestor Kumou, a wounded Integration Stage cultivator, was likely waiting outside Broken Blade Canyon to target Luo Xiwen. He and Luo Xiwen stayed in the canyon and waited for her ancestor or other help to arrive.

• Luo Xiwen gave Su Fan two Eighth-grade Immortal Talismans and revealed that her ancestor had also given her two powerful jade talismans.
• Luo Xiwen told Su Fan that Old Ancestor Kumou sought revenge because her second uncle had killed one of his descendants.
• Su Fan contacted Qin Yu, who confirmed that Old Ancestor Kumou had recently appeared in Wuyou Heaven.
• Qin Yu reported the danger to Ruyi Pavilion's higher-ups and hoped they could summon support, but Su Fan doubted anyone would risk confronting Kumou.
• Su Fan told Luo Xiwen that Kumou had appeared in Wuyou Heaven, and her expression changed as she became afraid.

Su Fan and Luo Xiwen hid in Broken Blade Canyon while waiting for her old ancestor and his allies to arrive, but bandit cultivators from Nine Bends Cave surrounded their shop at dawn. Su Fan unleashed a Law-powered sword strike that wiped out the attackers and destroyed Nine Bends Cave’s most ferocious gangs.

• Luo Xiwen contacted her old ancestor, who promised to come with several old friends, and gave Su Fan two Eighth-grade Immortal Talismans.
• Su Fan learned about Luo Xiwen’s grudge with Old Ancestor Kumou and decided they should stay hidden in Broken Blade Canyon until help arrived.
• After Luo Xiwen woke from a nightmare, Su Fan sensed danger and asked the Witchcraft School Upper Realm Big Shot to raise his cultivation to the Half-step Nascent Soul Stage.
• Several hundred bandit cultivators from Nine Bends Cave surrounded the shop while searching for Luo Xiwen.
• Su Fan burst through the shop’s roof and used Whirlwind Slash to kill the bandits and erase Nine Bends Cave’s most ferocious gangs.

After slaughtering the bandit groups that attacked him, Su Fan confronted Nine Bends Cave’s leaders over their failure to intervene. He threatened to destroy the cave, and its cultivators recognized his signature hammer and feared he was the notorious Su Fan.

• Su Fan’s attack left the bandit groups dead and much of Nine Bends Cave in ruins, while Luo Xiwen watched from her hiding place.
• A Half-step Void Refining cultivator offered to overlook Su Fan’s self-defense if he compensated Nine Bends Cave for the damage.
• Su Fan rejected the offer and demanded an explanation, threatening to level Nine Bends Cave as its Deity Transformation elders berated him but hesitated to attack.
• Su Fan summoned his huge hammer and prepared to fight when a warning reached the elders that he might be Su Fan.
• The elders recognized his eighth-grade Demon Subduing Heaven Splitting Mountain Suppressing Hammer and realized they could not afford to provoke him.

Su Fan drove off the Nine Bends Cave cultivators and waited with Luo Xiwen for help while sensing an unexplained crisis. Just as he was talking with her at the inn, he felt the familiar warning of imminent mortal danger and activated two 8th-rank protective immortal talismans.

• Su Fan accepted an unspoken offer of compensation, and the Nine Bends Cave cultivators withdrew before he and Luo Xiwen left the area in disguise.
• A Nascent Soul Realm cultivator delivered a storage ring from Nine Bends Cave, which Su Fan inspected and kept.
• Luo Xiwen contacted her household's old ancestor and learned that one of the ancestor's friends would reach Broken Blade Canyon in an hour.
• Su Fan learned from Qin Yu that Ruyi Pavilion had found no one willing to take the mission to help them.
• While Luo Xiwen questioned whether Su Fan was an evil cultivator, he sensed deadly danger and applied two 8th-rank protective immortal talismans.

Su Fan and Luo Xiwen survived Old Ancestor Kumou’s destruction of Nine Bends Cave by sheltering beneath a boulder, but they remained trapped underground while Integration Stage experts fought above. After Luo Xiwen woke, Su Fan told her they could not leave yet, and she privately wished she were trapped with the Great Demon Su Fan instead.

• Su Fan and Luo Xiwen’s barriers collapsed when Old Ancestor Kumou’s strike destroyed Nine Bends Cave, but Luo Xiwen’s jade pendant shielded them long enough to survive beneath a boulder.
• Su Fan covered the unconscious Luo Xiwen with his cloak and stayed still as Old Ancestor Kumou’s aura searched the ruins.
• The fighting above continued, and Su Fan realized the Old Devil had killed every cultivator in Nine Bends Cave and decided to wait underground rather than risk being detected.
• Luo Xiwen woke and tried to move away from Su Fan, but the cramped space left them pressed together.
• Su Fan told Luo Xiwen through a thought that they could not leave yet, and she secretly wished she were trapped with the Great Demon Su Fan instead.

After surviving the destruction of Nine Bends Cave, Su Fan and Luo Xiwen escaped Broken Blade Canyon through a field of Spatial Rifts. Just as they tried to leave, Su Fan sensed immediate danger and urged Luo Xiwen to activate her talisman.

• Su Fan and Luo Xiwen waited underground until Luo Xiwen said her ancestor’s friends had likely arrived and revealed she had three Wind-Riding Ten-Thousand-Mile Great Teleportation Immortal Talismans.
• Luo Xiwen used an Earth Evasion Talisman to bring them to the surface, where they found Nine Bends Cave buried and its hundreds of thousands of cultivators dead.
• Su Fan tested the air with a Dao Artifact and discovered that Spatial Rifts filled the sky after the Old Devil’s strike.
• Su Fan sent Ghost Soldiers ahead to scout, and he and Luo Xiwen spent an hour carefully making their way out of Broken Blade Canyon.
• As Su Fan turned to leave the canyon, he sensed danger and told Luo Xiwen to activate the talisman.

Su Fan and Luo Xiwen were trapped in Old Ancestor Kumou’s domain, where he intended to capture and humiliate Luo Xiwen. Su Fan arranged to buy enough power from the Wu Sect grandmaster to help Luo Xiwen activate her jade talisman, leaving them poised to attempt a desperate counterattack.

• Old Ancestor Kumou trapped Su Fan and Luo Xiwen in his domain after driving away the Integration Stage cultivator who had interfered with his plans.
• Old Ancestor Kumou revealed his grudge against Luo Xiwen’s Household and planned to torture her while broadcasting the humiliation across the Cultivation World.
• Su Fan told Luo Xiwen to prepare her ancestor’s jade talisman and promised to buy her half a breath to activate it.
• Su Fan asked the Wu Sect grandmaster to temporarily strengthen his Spiritual Sense, and agreed to pay with one Void Refining Stage cultivator’s corpse.

Su Fan and Luo Xiwen escaped an Integration Stage Old Devil after Su Fan’s demonic sound briefly stunned him and Luo Xiwen used a Ninth-tier Immortal Talisman to kill him. They teleported more than a million li away, where Su Fan checked Luo Xiwen’s injuries and found no immediate danger nearby.

• Su Fan used Rakshasa Heaven-Wailing Soul Demon Sound to agitate the Demon God within the weakened Old Ancestor Kumou and daze him.
• Luo Xiwen activated her jade talisman, slicing Old Ancestor Kumou in half, and Su Fan smashed his head before storing the corpse.
• Su Fan and Luo Xiwen used the Wind-Riding Ten-Thousand-Mile Great Teleportation Immortal Talisman to escape as a Foreign Great Demon formed from the corpse’s demonic smoke.
• Luo Xiwen’s Household Old Ancestor and his two friends arrived and destroyed the weakened Demon God, but they could not reach Su Fan and Luo Xiwen.
• Su Fan and Luo Xiwen crashed into a forest more than a million li away, where Su Fan freed her from the branches, checked her injuries, and scanned the area for danger.