Chapter Summaries

Fang Che wiped out Qianshan Feng’s bandits, negotiated compensation with Lu Sihai, and traveled toward Azure Wave City. He returned home to see his parents before resuming his journey at dawn, and ended the chapter handing Fang Yunzheng more gifts and tasks to explain to Fang Qianyi.

• Fang Che killed Qianshan Feng and his gang, buried their bodies, then destroyed their lair and seized most of its wealth while sparing some elderly people, women, and children.
• Lu Sihai admitted that he had used Qianshan Feng to make the road safer and agreed to compensate Fang Che with silver owed to the Southeast Headquarters.
• Fang Che and the Great Saber Escort Agency traveled safely as news of Qianshan Feng’s destruction spread, and Fang Che collected protection money from merchant caravans following them.
• Fang Che left the convoy near White Cloud Continent, while Lu Sihai’s convoy hosted grateful bandit leaders who celebrated Qianshan Feng’s death.
• Fang Che returned to the Fang family residence and reunited with Fang Qianyi and Fang Yunzheng, then shared dinner with his relatives before telling his mother he would leave at dawn.
• Fang Che gave Fang Yunzheng Essence of Divine Power and a Qiongxiao Flower containing a Heavenly Countenance Pill, asking him to explain the gift to Fang Qianyi.

Fang Che said goodbye to Fang Yunzheng and Fang Qianyi before returning early to Chief Escort Lu’s gathering, where he forced the region’s bandit lords to accept his rules and pay Southeast Headquarters. He left the frightened outlaws with a warning that he would deal with those who stayed away later.

• Fang Che gave Fang Yunzheng resources and wine but refused to leave him extra Qiongxiao Flowers, then discussed Night Dream’s danger and prepared to depart.
• Fang Che said goodbye to Fang Yunzheng, who reassured him that the family would be safe, while Fang Qianyi revealed she had been awake and missing her son.
• Fang Che returned early to Chief Escort Lu’s lodging and surprised the assembled bandit lords, who feared he had caught them celebrating Qianshan Feng’s death.
• Fang Che spared the bandits for the night and made them introduce themselves before demanding that they follow rules and stop behaving like Qianshan Feng.
• Fang Che ordered each bandit lord to contribute half their assets within half a month and half annually thereafter, and they agreed.
• Fang Che told Chief Escort Lu to list the bandits who had not attended, then vanished after warning the gathering that he might visit them later.

After returning from White Mist Continent, Fang Che brought wealth back to the Southeast Headquarters and reunited with Night Dream and Zhao Yinger. As he began planning his next tasks, news arrived that the Xue family's battle agreement with him was about to expire.

• After Fang Che left, Boss Du explained that Fang Che had spared the mountain chiefs to enforce new rules and keep future bandits from rising, and the chiefs thanked Lu Sihai before departing.
• Fang Che told Lu Sihai to send him a list of the absent chiefs, then met Zhao Shanhe and An Ruoxing, who welcomed him and asked about the escort wagons’ wealth.
• Fang Che learned that Nirvana Martial Academy had grown to two million children and claimed the first four carts’ goods in exchange for canceling Zhao Shanhe’s debt, disappointing Zhao Shanhe and the Finance Chief.
• Fang Che returned to the Southeast Headquarters, where Night Dream embraced him in tears and Zhao Yinger updated him on the stored supplies.
• Fang Che planned to sort the goods and make Zhao Shanhe issue another IOU, then learned that the Xue family’s battle agreement with him was about to expire.

The Xue family struggled to find someone to duel Fang Che after his fame and strength had grown far beyond what they expected, while Fang Che and his allies devised an explanation for the suspicious power behind White Mist Continent’s reorganization. Dongfang Sansan accepted the cover story and reminded Xue Fuxiao that the duel was still pending.

• The Xue family considered sending Xue Wanren to fight Fang Che, but Xue Wanren refused, and his companions offered no useful information about Fang Che’s strength.
• Fang Che told An Ruoxing that a mysterious senior had helped him reorganize White Mist Continent, then explained the same cover story to Yin Shen Gong and Sun Wutian.
• Yan Nan devised a plan for Sun Wutian to appear as the mysterious senior, while Fang Che supplied a story about helping the senior recover his strength with Essence of Divine Power.
• Dongfang Sansan accepted Yan Nan’s explanation and summoned Xue Fuxiao, then told him to travel to East Lake or Tiandu because the Xue family’s duel with Fang Che was approaching.

Dongfang Sansan sent Xue Fuxiao to retrieve Fang Che’s promised surprise and deliberately keep him busy, hoping Yan Nan would grow anxious and send Sun Wutian to work for the Guardians. Meanwhile, Fang Che advised Yan Beihan on how to handle White Cloud Palace’s infiltration and warned her to defend her authority, leaving her newly resolved to take control of the operation.

• Dongfang Sansan ordered Xue Fuxiao to collect Fang Che’s surprise, cooperate in a challenge match, and keep Fang Che too busy to establish the Night Demon Sect.
• Dongfang Sansan explained that delaying Fang Che would make Yan Nan anxious enough to send Sun Wutian to work for the Guardians.
• After returning to Fang Wang Residence, Fang Che received Yan Beihan’s message about how to handle the nearly completed infiltration of White Cloud Palace.
• Fang Che advised Yan Beihan to divide White Cloud Palace’s factions, limit slaughter, and consider the long-term consequences of the operation.
• Fang Che warned Yan Beihan that her team’s opposition could undermine her authority and urged her to insist on having the final say.
• Yan Beihan thanked Fang Che and said his advice had made her resolve to take charge.

Fang Che returned to East Lake Continent and was immediately pulled into preparations for the Xue family challenge, which Xue Fuxiao abruptly scheduled for two days later. In Xue Fuxiao’s domain, Fang Che revealed a huge cache of Nine Dragons Earth Vein Fruits and spirit crystals, leaving Xue Fuxiao stunned.

• Yan Beihan summoned Ice Aunt to help Xiao Han, and Ice Aunt left after Madman Halberd fretted over her departure and his Flying Dragon Soup.
• Fang Che watched the Nine Small Ones train, then met the Snow-Clad Person and Xue family elders to discuss their long-delayed challenge and the proposed date.
• Zhao Shanhe announced that Xue Fuxiao had set Fang Che and the Xue family’s decisive battle for the fifth day of the second month, forcing Fang Che to prepare to leave at once.
• Xue Fuxiao drew Fang Che into his domain, asked about Duan Xiyang’s condition, and learned that Duan might be nearing a breakthrough.
• Fang Che showed Xue Fuxiao more than sixty plants bearing over three hundred Nine Dragons Earth Vein Fruits, then poured out a vast hoard of spirit crystals.

Fang Che learned that the Guardians intended to use Sun Wutian as his hidden substitute for a Life and Death Patrol in Heavenly Capital City, hoping the work would turn Sun Wutian’s violence against evil. Sun Wutian agreed to help and revealed that he had once killed the legendary Deathbringer Flying Dagger and wiped out his village, leaving Fang Che shaken by the story.

• Xue Fuxiao explained that Sun Wutian would handle the actual patrol while Fang Che took the public credit, and that the Guardians hoped Sun Wutian would use his violence to protect people.
• Xue Fuxiao told Fang Che that Sun Wutian could not return to the Guardians after killing billions of innocents, and said he might someday have to kill Sun Wutian if his murderous aura faded and he threatened the Guardians’ leaders.
• Fang Che contacted Sun Wutian, who arrived and questioned whether Fang Che believed the Guardians could govern better than the Sole True Sect.
• Fang Che explained the Heavenly Capital assignment, and Sun Wutian accepted the role of his substitute while describing a legendary masked fighter known as the Deathbringer Flying Dagger.
• Sun Wutian revealed that he had tracked down the Deathbringer Flying Dagger, fought him through the night, killed him, and slaughtered his entire village.
• Fang Che praised the killing despite his grief, so Sun Wutian struck him and admonished him to respect his enemies, then admitted that he both regretted the killing and did not regret it.

Sun Wutian entrusted Fang Che with the Thirteen Deadly Blades and agreed to pose as him on the journey to Sky Capital. After Fang Che departed, the story shifted to the Big Dipper brothers, who gathered at their pavilion and reflected on their missing eldest brother.

• Sun Wutian confessed that jealousy had driven him to slaughter Thirteen Deadly Blades’ family and nearby villages, then offered to restore the hero’s name by impersonating Fang Che and teaching him the Flying Dagger Art.
• Sun Wutian gave Fang Che six hundred of Thirteen Deadly Blades’ nine hundred flying daggers and ordered him to reach the art’s entry level within two days.
• Fang Che assigned duties to Night Dream, Zhao Yinger, and his subordinates, gave Night Dream two Qiongxiao Flowers, and left for Sky Capital.
• Sun Wutian killed eighteen Guardians who ambushed Fang Che in the forest, and Fang Che showed no remorse as they continued their journey.
• Zhao Shanhe learned that eighteen of his people had vanished and angrily defended Fang Che’s reforms against those who blamed him for disciplining their Lineages.
• Qin Fengyun and the other Big Dipper brothers gathered at Big Dipper Pavilion, kept an empty seat for their missing eldest brother, and Qin Fengyun scrutinized Jiang Shangou.

The six Monarchs gathered in Heavenly Capital, where Qin Fengyun insisted they stay to watch the coming Fang-Xue battle, while Jiang Shangou's worries about their missing Eldest Brother drew his attention. As the Xue Family sent Xue Yihong to face Fang Che, Fang Che arrived, secretly bet a hundred million on his opponent, and refused the Guardian Hall's welcoming banquet before the match.

• Jiang Shangou wondered aloud whether Eldest Brother would ever return, and Qin Fengyun decided the brothers should remain in Heavenly Capital for the Fang-Xue battle.
• The Xue Family named Xue Yihong, a third-grade Venerable famed for his swordsmanship, as its fighter, sending the gambling odds sharply against Fang Che.
• The Xue Family entered Heavenly Capital in force, and Fang Che arrived that night with no visible aura.
• Fang Che bet one hundred million on Snow-Clad Red, stunning the crowd and prompting gamblers to rush to increase their wagers.
• Fang Che refused Miao Weide's welcoming banquet and announced that he would go to the Heavenly Human Martial Academy the next day.

Fang Che prepared for his battle against Snow-Clad Red while Dongfang Sansan received the rare treasures Fang Che had sent and concealed her excitement from Xue Fuxiao. On the morning of the contest, Fang Che went alone to the packed Heavenly Human Martial Academy, where the Snow Family and officials had gathered, but he had not yet arrived at the arena.

• Fang Che recalled Sun Wutian's punishing training, advanced to the early third grade of the Venerable level, and rested overnight before his battle with Snow-Clad Red.
• The Xue family ancestors worried about Xue Fuxiao's order that they must win, while reminding one another to treat Fang Che with respect regardless of the result.
• Xue Fuxiao brought Dongfang Sansan Nine Dragons Earth Vein Fruits, Colored Crystals, and Qiongxiao Flowers from Fang Che; Dongfang Sansan acted unimpressed until Xue Fuxiao left, then celebrated their potential to restore and strengthen the Guardians.
• Fang Che left his inn alone after the Heavenly Capital Guardian Hall declined to accompany him, while its hall master planned to attend later and watch the contest.
• The Heavenly Human Martial Academy filled with spectators, and officials, academy heads, Guardians, and the Snow Family assembled for the contest.
• As noon approached, the audience waited for Fang the Butcher, who had not yet arrived.

Fang Che arrived late to his duel with Snow-Clad Red, using his entrance to expose the Guardian Hall’s failure and then helping restore the Snow family’s honor by revealing its sacrifices at the Northern Frontier. The two began their battle, and their first four exchanges showed that they were closely matched.

• Fang Che made the crowd clear a path after saying he could not enter, forcing Dong Changfeng to confront Miao Weide about the Guardian Hall’s failure to escort him.
• Fang Che and Snow-Clad Red exchanged formal praise before the duel, then discussed Snow-Clad Red’s years guarding the Northern Frontier and the Snow family’s two-thousand-li Ice Tomb.
• Snow-Clad Red declared that he had not come to avenge Snow Wanshi, whom he called the Shit King, and thanked Fang Che for helping reclaim the Snow family’s reputation.
• Fang Che and Snow-Clad Red agreed the duel could not be avoided and acknowledged that neither could afford to lose.
• Dong Changfeng began the contest, and Fang Che and Snow-Clad Red exchanged four blows amid a starry sky and a blizzard, each finding the other’s strength formidable.

Fang Che defeated Snow-Clad Red after a fierce duel, though their final exchange left the match appearing close and cost Fang Che a hundred million in bets. Snow Fuxiao arrived and ordered the Snow family home, while Yang Luoyu began reading an emergency order from Guardian Headquarters.

• Fang Che and Snow-Clad Red fought through more than fifteen hundred exchanges, using their Divine Metal weapons and powerful saber and sword techniques.
• Dong Changfeng judged that Fang Che would narrowly win, while the Xue family realized Snow-Clad Red had given his all against a younger opponent.
• Fang Che and Snow-Clad Red unleashed their trump cards, shattered the arena, and Snow-Clad Red conceded after pointing out the sword mark at his throat.
• Fang Che and Snow-Clad Red joked about the hundred million Fang Che had lost in bets, and Dong Changfeng announced Fang Che as the winner.
• Snow Fuxiao arrived, rebuked the Snow family, and sent Snow-Clad Red and the other family members back home.
• Yang Luoyu announced an emergency order from Guardian Headquarters and began reading it aloud.

Fang Che received authority to impose martial law and purge Heavenly Capital City, then began organizing the Guardian Hall while planning nighttime operations with Sun Wutian. The city descended into panic as the purge approached, and Sun Wutian set out to hunt those trying to flee.

• Yang Luoyu delivered the Eastern Chief Strategist's orders, placing Heavenly Capital City under martial law and giving Fang Che control of its Guardian Hall and purge.
• Fang Che warned Miao Weide to cooperate, agreed to give a lecture at the Heavenly Human Martial Academy after the reorganization, and led the Guardian Hall back to its headquarters.
• News of the purge spread through the city, prompting criminals, gamblers, pleasure houses, and other groups to seek escape or ask for help.
• Fang Che reviewed a century of case files, found Heavenly Capital City's Underground World unusually orderly, and issued strict orders to the Guardian Hall.
• Fang Che and Sun Wutian planned to target fleeing martial artists at night, with Sun Wutian disguised as Fang Che and Fang Che preparing the next operations.
• Sun Wutian began the operation, while Miao Weide contacted Wu Zhiyun and learned to prepare large clerical, financial, corpse-collection, and cleaning teams.

Sun Wutian impersonated Fang Che and slaughtered fleeing martial artists around Heavenly Capital City through the night, while Fang Che sorted case files inside the Guardian Hall. By dawn, the killings had begun winning public support, and Sun Wutian prepared to continue the purge using the files Fang Che had gathered.

• Wu Zhiyun warned Miao Weide that Fang the Butcher would bring a bloodbath to Heavenly Capital City and urged him to put righteousness before family.
• Wen Zhiyi reported that Sun Wutian had ambushed people fleeing the curfew and killed hundreds of thousands while circling the city repeatedly.
• Sun Wutian continued killing through the night, and Miao Weide ordered the exhausted Corpse Collection Team to work faster after Sun Wutian threatened to replace them.
• As the dead were collected in daylight, residents recognized many notorious criminals among them and began cheering Fang the Butcher’s actions.
• Fang Che revealed that he had spent the night sorting case files while Sun Wutian impersonated him, and Sun Wutian took the files before leading another operation.

Sun Wutian’s massacre of Heavenly Capital City overwhelmed its logistics while reports about Fang Che’s power prompted Dongfang Sansan to investigate his hidden ally. Yan Nan learned that the dead Thirteen Deadly Blades could serve as a cover story, but the Qiongxiao Flowers caused a frenzy at the Sole True Sect, and Dongfang Sanjiu arrived to demand some for her family.

• Sun Wutian killed far fewer people on his second night, but Captain Fang halted the purge on the third day when the corpse-collection and other logistics teams fell behind.
• Guardian Headquarters received thousands of accusations about Fang Che, and Dongfang Sansan convened a meeting to investigate the force behind him and his Flying Dagger Art.
• Yan Nan received Yin Shen Gong’s report that Sun Wutian had killed Thirteen Deadly Blades, giving them a dead man to impersonate, and relaxed about the investigation.
• Yan Nan told Yan Beihan to keep sole authority over her operation and share its results with the Guardians, then set conditions for distributing his Qiongxiao Flowers to those who brought him Guardian heads or Extremity Realm trophies.
• Dongfang Sansan asked Feng Yunqi to make scar-removing and youth-preserving pills from the Qiongxiao Flowers, while hiding their true source and presenting the pills as Feng Yunqi’s achievement.
• Dongfang Sanjiu disrupted Dongfang Sansan’s meeting and demanded Qiongxiao Flowers for her family.

Dongfang Sansan used Dongfang Sanjiu’s demand for Qiongxiao Flower to announce a secret plan to make youth-restoring pills and spread news that could motivate the major families. He then sent Rui Qianshan to Heavenly Capital City to investigate whether Fang Che’s Flying Dagger Art belonged to the long-missing Thirteen Deadly Blades, while Fang Che and Sun Wutian continued their purge of corrupt families.

• Dongfang Sanjiu confronted Dongfang Sansan about restoring the disfigured women’s appearances, and he revealed that Feng Yunqi was refining a scar-removing, youth-preserving medicine using the heart of the Heavenly Mystery Jade.
• Dongfang Sansan asked the gathered family leaders to keep the pills secret, but they spread the news, and he planned to use family contribution and merit points to distribute them and spur families to fight.
• Dongfang Sansan recognized that Fang Che’s Flying Dagger Art might be connected to Thirteen Deadly Blades and sent Rui Qianshan to Heavenly Capital City with the old dagger to confirm the connection.
• At the Huang Family purge, Captain Fang rejected the family’s appeal to its ancestor’s Continental Hero Medal, condemned its descendants for exceeding the medal’s protections, and executed more than a thousand captured criminals.
• Captain Fang confiscated most of the Huang Family’s wealth, reclaimed its medal, and moved on to the next family; Sun Wutian later told Fang Che that the Guardians were too tolerant of heroes’ descendants.

Fang Che continued the Life and Death Patrol purge while Sun Wutian trained him and secretly upheld Dongfang Sansan’s broader plans. Snow Condensing Sword Master confronted Fang Che’s apparent helper, recognized Sun Wutian as an old savior, and let him leave; Fang Che then resumed the killings in Heavenly Capital City.

• Fang Che discussed the rotten meritorious lineages with Sun Wutian and considered proposing new restrictions to Dongfang Sansan.
• Sun Wutian punished Fang Che for neglecting his martial training, and Fang Che hurried to finish his work before practicing the Hate Heaven Saber and Thirteen Deadly Blades.
• Captain Fang continued purging criminals in the Eastern District as Snow Condensing Sword arrived and inspected the killings without intervening.
• Snow Condensing Sword confronted the figure wearing Fang Che’s face, and Sun Wutian revealed their past encounter in Black Mountain Forest and proved his identity with a throwing blade.
• Sun Wutian refused Snow Condensing Sword’s offer to drink and departed, while Snow Condensing Sword returned believing his old ally would fight alongside the Guardians.
• Fang the Butcher returned to Heavenly Capital City and resumed killing, disappointing the lineages that had expected Snow Condensing Sword to stop him.

Fang Che’s purge of Heaven’s Capital City won public support after Snow Condensing Sword Master praised his work and gifted him wine, while Sun Wutian took out his humiliation on Fang Che. After two months of reform, Fang Che finished the city’s cleanup and requested a meeting with the Night Emperor in the Underground World.

• Sun Wutian, disguised as Fang Che, killed villains across the city while Snow Condensing Sword Master followed overhead and praised him, then gave him two jars of wine.
• Sun Wutian presented one jar as a gift to the people, turning it into spiritual mist that benefited the city, and returned to Guardian Hall amid public cheers.
• Sun Wutian beat the real Fang Che for the humiliation he had endured, then learned Fang Che had not been responsible for the bowing and apologized after striking him again.
• Snow Condensing Sword Master reported the Thirteen Deadly Blades’ involvement to Guardian Headquarters, and its leaders accepted Fang Che’s actions as the continent’s families began purging their own corrupt members.
• Fang Che completed two months of purges in Heaven’s Capital City, executed seven officials including Miao Weide, and spared some of Miao’s lineage in recognition of his ancestors’ service.
• Fang Che inspected the Underground World, found it did not require a general purge, and sent the Night Emperor a letter requesting a meeting.

Fang Che explained to Sun Wutian why the Guardians’ purge could create only a temporary period of peace, while Wu Daotian visited Ye Wushang in Heavenly Capital City. After Ye Wushang learned that their Sixth Brother was alive, he agreed to meet Fang Che, and Fang Che received his invitation for the following night.

• Fang Che told Sun Wutian that the Guardians’ purge could provide a window for reform but could not permanently eliminate corruption, and Sun Wutian agreed to raise the matter with Yan Nan.
• Wu Daotian drank with Ye Wushang, who questioned him about his ties to the Guardians and his grudge against Heavenly King Flute.
• Ye Wushang inferred that Wu Daotian had encountered their Sixth Brother, and Wu Daotian confirmed that he was alive but did not reveal more.
• Ye Wushang read Wu Daotian’s message from Sixth Brother and promised to keep the secret, then accepted Fang Che’s request to meet.
• Ye Wushang invited Fang Che to Moon Viewing Pavilion the next night, and Fang Che received the reply.

Fang Che finished the rectification of Heavenly Capital City, arranged to lecture at the Heavenly Human Martial Academy, and visited Sun Wutian at a teahouse. After Headquarters cut the Southeast's share of the seized gambling revenue, Fang Che protested and received warnings from both the Guardians and the Sole True Sect.

• Qin Fengyun visited Fang Che, and they arranged for Fang Che to give a lecture at the Heavenly Human Martial Academy the next afternoon.
• Fang Che urged the Guardian Hall clerks to finish compiling the rectification records, while Heavenly Capital City announced the work was complete and visitors marveled at the peaceful Mass Burial Ground.
• Fang Che found Sun Wutian at the Four Seas Teahouse listening to a bawdy story about him, then told the startled storyteller not to make the beauty trap real.
• Yu Xiaoran told Fang Che that Headquarters had changed the revenue rules, leaving the Southeast with only thirty percent of Heavenly Capital City's gambling proceeds.
• Fang Che appealed to Headquarters, and Dongfang Sansan ordered that the Southeast keep half; Ninth Lord then warned Fang Che not to touch Headquarters' share.
• Yin Shen Gong relayed Yan Nan's warning about Fang Che's money gathering, and Fang Che defended it as funding for the Night Demon Sect.