Chapter Summaries

After a tax collector beat Jiang Ping An and threatened him over unpaid land tax, his father's broken Bronze Basin began duplicating copper coins, and Jiang Ping An discovered he could summon it at will. He went to return Li YueYue's stolen coin and buy food, leaving Li Min stunned by the money he had.

• A Soldier beat Jiang Ping An and gave him three days to pay the land tax, despite Jiang Ping An's claim that he had already paid ahead.
• Li YueYue gave Jiang Ping An a stolen copper coin and half a bun, and the Bronze Basin duplicated the coin into ten copper coins.
• Jiang Ping An guessed that the Bronze Basin was a Treasure Accumulation Basin and found he could make it disappear into his body and summon it again.
• Jiang Ping An went to Li Min's house to repay Li YueYue's coin and buy four buns, and Li Min asked where he had gotten so much money.

Jiang Ping An discovered that the Bronze Basin could duplicate copper coins, but returned from town to find his village massacred by Bandits. Immortal women took Li YueYue after discovering her Water Spiritual Root, and she resisted leaving Jiang Ping An behind.

• Jiang Ping An found that the Bronze Basin duplicated six copper coins into sixteen, then went to town to buy food and Sugar-coated Haws for Li YueYue.
• Jiang Ping An returned to find the village burning and its people dead, and Li Min died after telling him Bandits had attacked and Tiger Girl was hiding in the well.
• Jiang Ping An rescued Li YueYue, who cried over her father's death and asked why people kept bullying them.
• Immortal women arrived and discovered that Li YueYue had a powerful natural Water Spiritual Root, while Jiang Ping An had ordinary talent.
• Li YueYue agreed to cultivate so she could avenge her father, but struggled against the woman carrying her away and insisted on staying with Brother PingAn.

After Tiger Girl was taken away to cultivate, Jiang Ping An buried the villagers and began practicing the technique she left behind, discovering that his Treasure Accumulation Basin could duplicate Spirit Stones. He reached Qi Refining First Layer, but when the corrupt soldier Yang Yuan attacked him, Jiang Ping An gathered his strength and fought back.

• A woman took Li YueYue away to cultivate, leaving Jiang Ping An a breathing technique and three Spirit Stones.
• Jiang Ping An buried the villagers and vowed to protect the people worth protecting and kill oppressive Soldiers and Bandits.
• He used the Treasure Accumulation Basin to duplicate a Spirit Stone, then cultivated until he opened his first Meridian and reached Qi Refining First Layer.
• Yang Yuan arrived to collect taxes, learned the village had been massacred, and attacked Jiang Ping An after he questioned the Soldiers.
• Jiang Ping An gathered his spiritual energy into his fist and roared that they would die together.

Jiang Ping An killed the Soldier who had oppressed him, advanced to the Qi Refining Second Layer, and then discovered five Bandits near his home. He killed the Bandits and began searching their bodies for valuables.

• Jiang Ping An killed Yang Yuan with a powerful punch, buried his body, and took his money, Military Saber, and Knife-Wielding Techniques book.
• Jiang Ping An spent two days cultivating and studying the book, then used twenty Spirit Stones to open his second Meridian and reach the Qi Refining Second Layer.
• Jiang Ping An spotted five Bandits approaching his home and retrieved the buried Military Saber instead of confronting them unarmed.
• Jiang Ping An waited until the Bandits split up, then killed them one by one with the Military Saber.
• Jiang Ping An searched the Bandits' bodies and found something that caught his attention.

Jiang Ping An discovered that the jade pendant was a Protective Amulet and that it could shield him from attacks. After the amulet helped him kill ten soldiers, the Treasure Accumulation Basin appeared and made their horses vanish.

• Jiang Ping An found the Protective Amulet on Scarface and fed it energy from Spirit Stones and his own body, but could not fill it.
• Jiang Ping An chased a fleeing figure but lost him after exhausting his spiritual energy.
• Jiang Ping An encountered ten soldiers who recognized his saber and the bandits' corpses, then fled when they pursued him.
• The Protective Amulet glowed and knocked away a soldier's saber, allowing Jiang Ping An to kill all ten soldiers.
• Jiang Ping An took the corpses to Wild Wolf Valley, where the Treasure Accumulation Basin appeared and made the horses vanish.

Jiang Ping An discovered that the Treasure Accumulation Basin could store objects, advanced to the Qi Refining Third Layer, and faced bandits who came seeking revenge. When soldiers arrived, he learned they were corrupt and planned to seize his family’s farmland, leaving him devastated.

• Jiang Ping An tested the Treasure Accumulation Basin and discovered it could store inanimate objects but not living animals.
• Jiang Ping An advanced to the Qi Refining Third Layer, practiced with his blade, and replenished the Protective Amulet.
• The Second Boss led bandits to Jiang Ping An’s village, but soldiers arrived before Jiang Ping An could attack them.
• Cui Xiao accepted the Second Boss’s bribe and let the bandits leave, ignoring Jiang Ping An’s demand for justice.
• Cui Xiao ordered his men to harvest the village’s grain and seize Jiang Ping An’s family farmland, and Jiang Ping An laughed and wept as his faith in justice collapsed.

Jiang Ping An fought Cui Xiao after Cui Xiao's men killed his parents and villagers, but Cui Xiao's martial skill and stronger saber overwhelmed him. Jiang Ping An calmed himself and recognized Cui Xiao's greed as a possible weakness just as his Protective Amulet shattered.

• Jiang Ping An killed Cui Xiao's personal guard and charged at Cui Xiao to avenge his parents and the villagers.
• Jiang Ping An wounded Cui Xiao and decapitated his Fire Red War Horse, then revealed a Storage Artifact and drew another saber.
• Cui Xiao realized Jiang Ping An was a cultivator and attacked him with the Phantom Blade, while Jiang Ping An's Protective Amulet blocked the strikes.
• Cui Xiao exploited Jiang Ping An's inexperience and pressed his attack as the Protective Amulet's energy faded.
• Jiang Ping An steadied himself, noticed Cui Xiao's greed, and remembered how greed had trapped a monkey reaching for fruit.
• The Protective Amulet's energy dissipated and its barrier shattered.

Jiang Ping An killed Cui Xiao by exploiting his distraction, then fled into the mountains after saying farewell to his parents’ graves. Flat Water County’s general sent Middle Captains after him, unaware that Jiang Ping An had calmly entered the city.

• Jiang Ping An distracted Cui Xiao with Spirit Stones and killed him, causing the soldiers to flee.
• Jiang Ping An searched Cui Xiao’s body, took two books, Blood Qi Pills, a treasured saber, and silver, then ran toward the mountains.
• Jiang Ping An said goodbye to his parents at their graves and vowed to pursue immortality and avenge them before leaving into the forest.
• Chen Sheng told the general that Cui Xiao had been killed, and the general ordered several Middle Captains to hunt Jiang Ping An.
• The Middle Captains set out from Flat Water County for Great River Village while Jiang Ping An watched them leave from the city gate.

Jiang Ping An gathered information about Flat Water County’s soldiers and learned that he was wanted for killing Cui Xiao. After a soldier recognized him at the eastern gate, Jiang Ping An crippled the man, seized a horse, and escaped toward the east.

• Jiang Ping An entered Flat Water County in disguise and listened to the teahouse patrons discuss the war, the soldiers, and his attack on Great River Village.
• Over five or six days, Jiang Ping An learned about the ranks and strength of Flat Water County’s troops, the Blood Qi Art, and the Phantom Blade martial skill.
• Jiang Ping An heard that a wanted poster identified the killer of Middle Captain Cui Xiao as a teenager, and he left for the eastern gate after a patron hinted at an escape route.
• At the gate, a greedy soldier searched Jiang Ping An’s bag and began to recognize him, so Jiang Ping An cut off the soldier’s leg.
• Jiang Ping An seized a horse and rode out through the eastern gate as the soldiers scattered and called for reinforcements to pursue him.

Jiang Ping An killed a stronger Middle Captain with Phantom Blade and escaped into the Eagle's Sigh Mountain Range. After breaking through to Qi Refining Fourth Layer, he began cultivating Blood Qi Art as soldiers entered the mountains to hunt him.

• Jiang Ping An lured the pursuing Middle Captain with Spirit Stones, then killed him with Phantom Blade when the man overpowered him in a clash of blades.
• Jiang Ping An took the dead man's pills, Blood Qi Art book, and blade, then fled into the Eagle's Sigh Mountain Range while the remaining soldiers abandoned their pursuit.
• After running through the mountains for a day, Jiang Ping An hid in a rock crevice beside a pool and decided to cultivate Blood Qi Art.
• Jiang Ping An broke through to Qi Refining Fourth Layer, swallowed a Blood Qi Pill, and began training his body and blade swings in the pool.
• A group of soldiers entered the Eagle's Sigh Mountain Range, promising a thousand taels of gold to whoever captured Jiang Ping An.

Jiang Ping An mastered the first floor of the Blood Qi Art, discovered that demonic beast meat replenished Blood Qi, and used it to advance his body cultivation. While searching for beasts, he came across armed men forcing a group of women along and saw one man drag away a woman after her daughter tried to stop him.

• Jiang Ping An mastered the first floor of the Blood Qi Art in one day and resolved to grow stronger to avenge his parents.
• A Black Leopard attacked Jiang Ping An, but he wounded and killed it with his blade.
• Jiang Ping An discovered that demonic beast meat contained Blood Qi and began hunting beasts to support his cultivation.
• Jiang Ping An heard a disturbance while searching for strange beasts and hid in a tree as armed men drove a group of women through the forest.
• A scarred man dragged away a woman who begged him to spare her daughter, and the girl bit his hand before he knocked her down and pinned her to the ground.

Jiang Ping An rescued women from bandits in the Eagle's Sigh Mountain Range but was spotted by soldiers hunting him for a reward. Xu Hao intercepted him on a giant eagle and revealed that he had mastered the second floor of the Phantom Blade, leaving Jiang Ping An's protective talisman under heavy attack.

• Jiang Ping An killed the bandits threatening a group of women, freed them, and gave them the bandits' money.
• Soldiers spotted Jiang Ping An, fired a signal flare, and pursued him as the rescued girl wondered why they were chasing her savior.
• Xu Hao flew to the signal's location on his giant eagle and attacked Jiang Ping An as he fled.
• Jiang Ping An and Xu Hao clashed with the Phantom Blade, and Xu Hao realized Jiang Ping An had learned the technique remarkably quickly.
• Xu Hao used the second floor of the Phantom Blade to strike through Jiang Ping An's block, draining two-tenths of his protective talisman's energy in two attacks.

Jiang Ping An killed Xu Hao after surviving his attacks with hidden Protective Amulets, but a goateed cultivator captured him and took him to a dungeon. There, Jiang Ping An learned his captor was Yuan Bin, a Great King Mountain bandit involved in the slaughter of his village.

• Xu Hao shattered Jiang Ping An's barrier and nearly killed him, but Jiang Ping An used a kick and a second Protective Amulet to defeat him.
• The Giant Eagle fled, and Jiang Ping An killed Xu Hao before treating his chest wound and searching the body.
• A goateed man used a Formation Banner to break through Jiang Ping An's protection, knocked him unconscious, and captured him.
• Jiang Ping An woke chained in a dungeon, where the man said a Spirit Dispersal Pill and Formation Banner had drained away his spiritual energy.
• The man questioned Jiang Ping An about his cultivation resources, and Jiang Ping An recognized him as one of the Great King Mountain bandits who had slaughtered his village.
• Yuan Bin lashed Jiang Ping An across the face and coldly asked whether he thought he had the right to be angry.

Yuan Bin tortured Jiang Ping An and used a Blood-Colored Eye to force him to relive the deaths of his parents. In Flat Water County, Xu Tao learned his son had died and ordered a large force to find Jiang Ping An and bring him back alive for revenge.

• Yuan Bin beat Jiang Ping An, gouged out his right eye, and pressed the Blood-Colored Eye into its socket when Jiang refused to reveal his resources.
• Yuan Bin's Bandits explained that the Blood-Colored Eye made its victims repeatedly relive their most painful memories, while Jiang Ping An saw his mother collapse and his father die protecting hunted pheasants.
• Xu Tao learned that his son had been killed, rejected the report, and vowed to slaughter Jiang Ping An and everyone connected to him.
• Xu Tao's subordinate told him Jiang's family and village were already dead, so Xu Tao killed the subordinate and ordered two thousand soldiers and two squad captains to search Eagle's Sigh Mountain Range and bring Jiang back.

After enduring a day of torture, Jiang Ping An awakened a power to control objects through his right eye and broke free from the bandits' prison. He slaughtered the bandits in Great King Mountain and returned to tell the prisoners they could leave.

• Meng Kuo learned that Jiang Ping An had killed Xu Hao and ordered a rescue, hoping to win the people's hearts and help take Flat Water County.
• Yuan Bin decided to hand Jiang Ping An over to the soldiers from Flat Water County after the boy refused to reveal where his resources were hidden.
• A bandit kicked Jiang Ping An and demanded the resources, but Jiang Ping An's blood-red eyes twisted the bandit's head around and killed a guard at the door.
• Jiang Ping An used his right-eye power to shatter his chains, took Spirit Stones, and stored the Black Array Flag in the Treasure Accumulation Basin.
• Jiang Ping An killed the bandits who surrounded him and swept through the stronghold, then returned to the prison and told the prisoners they could leave.

Jiang Ping An escaped the bandit prison after killing hundreds of bandits, recovered his Protective Amulet, and took Yuan Bin’s rune materials and formation flags. Yuan Bin discovered that Jiang Ping An had fled and suspected the Blood-Colored Eyes had fused with him, while two Great Captains attacked Yuan Bin.

• Jiang Ping An freed the prisoners by snapping their cell locks, then left them among the bandit corpses.
• Jiang Ping An found his Protective Amulet and took the Rune Basics Encyclopedia, rune papers, and brush from Yuan Bin’s room.
• Jiang Ping An inspected his changed right eye, then used the Treasure Accumulation Basin to duplicate Blood Qi Pills as he prepared to cultivate.
• Yuan Bin returned to Great King Mountain with two Great Captains, found the bandits dead and Jiang Ping An gone, and suspected the Blood-Colored Eyes had fused with him.
• The Great Captains attacked Yuan Bin after he admitted Jiang Ping An had escaped, and Yuan Bin retaliated with a fireball as battle engulfed Great King Mountain.

After completing the second layer of the Blood Qi Art, Jiang Ping An encountered the wounded Yuan Bin and killed him. He found a storage bag filled with weapons and cultivation techniques, leaving him newly equipped but wary of becoming greedy.

• Jiang Ping An completed the second layer of the Blood Qi Art and discovered that his blood qi strengthened him and healed his injuries.
• After a distant explosion, Jiang Ping An hid and watched the badly wounded Yuan Bin emerge from the forest.
• Yuan Bin recognized Jiang Ping An and tried to cast the Fireball Art, but Jiang Ping An interrupted him and cut his throat.
• Jiang Ping An struck Yuan Bin's corpse several more times, then searched it and found a rune-covered Small Cloth Bag.
• Jiang Ping An emptied the bag and discovered weapons and the Fireball Art, Earth Wall Art, Healing Art, and Gale Step.
• Jiang Ping An resisted the urge to ambush another cultivator, remembering his mother's advice to be a good child.

Jiang Ping An broke through to the Fifth Level of Qi Refining with a Qi Gathering Pill, but two Great Captains nearly killed him before Old Li rescued him. After recovering, Jiang Ping An agreed to join Meng Kuo’s Military Camp in Continuous Mountain County.

• Jiang Ping An took a Qi Gathering Pill and broke through to the Fifth Level of Qi Refining.
• Two Great Captains found Jiang Ping An, shattered his Protective Amulet, and Ma Lin badly injured him.
• Old Li rescued Jiang Ping An from the Great Captains and gave him a Healing Pill before carrying him away.
• A day later, Jiang Ping An woke in Continuous Mountain County and met Meng Kuo, who introduced himself as the county’s general.
• Meng Kuo invited Jiang Ping An to join his Military Camp, and Jiang Ping An immediately agreed.

Jiang Ping An joined Meng Kuo’s military camp to help fight Flat Water County and hoped that becoming an immortal would let him revive his parents. After Meng Jing challenged him to a spar, he followed her into the courtyard, where Li Yuntian suggested Jiang Ping An might defeat her.

• Jiang Ping An asked whether the dead could be revived or whether he could become an immortal, and Meng Kuo told him the Founding Ruler of the Great Summer Kingdom had ascended long ago.
• Meng Jing burst into the room and challenged Jiang Ping An to a spar, but Meng Kuo sent her away.
• Meng Kuo gave Jiang Ping An three hundred Blood Qi Pills, said he would officially enter the military camp after recovering, and warned that war with Flat Water County might come that winter.
• After Meng Kuo left, Meng Jing returned and insisted Jiang Ping An spar with her, so he followed her to the courtyard and chose a saber.
• Li Yuntian told the watching soldiers that Jiang Ping An might defeat Meng Jing, and Meng Jing declared she would let him attack first.

Jiang Ping An fought Meng Jing and revealed his mastery of the Second Floor of the Phantom Blade, defeating her despite her Vibration Blade Art. Li Yuntian realized Jiang Ping An might be cultivating both spirit and body, then asked him about it after Meng Jing left.

• Jiang Ping An disarmed Meng Jing with his first strike, and the soldiers explained that she had mastered the Second Floor of the Vibration Blade Art.
• Jiang Ping An used the Phantom Blade against Meng Jing, while Li Yuntian recognized it as a Body Cultivator Martial Skill and suspected Jiang Ping An practiced Dual Cultivation of Spirit and Body.
• Meng Jing pressed her attack and seemed to gain the upper hand, but Jiang Ping An countered with the Second Floor of the Phantom Blade and held his blade to her neck.
• Li Yuntian stopped Meng Jing from forcing a breakthrough and told her Jiang Ping An had the physical fitness required of a Great Captain.
• Meng Jing ordered the soldiers to keep her defeat secret, then left and vowed to beat Jiang Ping An after the Prefecture County Genius Selection Competition.
• Li Yuntian dismissed the soldiers and asked Jiang Ping An whether he practiced Dual Cultivation of Spirit and Body.