Chapter Summaries

Li Fei lured Zhang Mingze into sending his reserves away, then raced across the rooftops to attack the convoy while Shangguan Xiao fought Yan Yichen’s forces with Li Fei’s poison. The chapter ended with Li Fei reaching the convoy and discovering that his newly upgraded Myriad Blood Bead had unlocked the Blood Demon transformation.

• Zhang Mingze sent reserve units toward Kaiping District and Jin'an District after reports of approaching forces, believing Qingyuan Fist Fortress was using an open stratagem to distract him.
• Li Fei told Xu Si to flee, then leaped from the Clock Tower and crossed the rooftops toward Zhang Mingze’s convoy.
• Yan Yichen and his allies surrounded Shangguan Xiao, but she used Li Fei’s powdered Nether Spring Poison to weaken them and killed one of the martial masters.
• Li Fei caught up with Zhang Mingze’s convoy before the reserve units could return.
• The Myriad Blood Bead reached Level 9, raising Li Fei’s Blood Souls to 102 and unlocking the Blood Demon transformation skill.

Li Fei attacked Zhang Mingze’s convoy and fought through its heavily armed guards, revealing that he could use force as a mid-Qi Transformation Stage warrior. After surviving a barrage of grenades, he transformed into the Blood Demon State and confronted Yang Xuan, whose axes barely wounded him.

• Li Fei charged toward the Qilin under fire, but Zhang Mingze drove away and left heavily armored soldiers to surround him.
• Li Fei cut through the armored soldiers, killed five martial artists with stored Blood Fiend Aura, and forced Zhang Mingze to prepare grenades and send Yang Xuan out to fight.
• More than twenty grenades exploded around Li Fei, but he survived and emerged in the Blood Demon State.
• Li Fei swept scarlet force through the assembled guards, killing them and making Yang Xuan realize he was still the Blue-Faced Ghost.
• Yang Xuan struck Li Fei with his battle axes, but the blows barely wounded him, and Li Fei taunted Yang Xuan to hit harder.

Li Fei killed Yang Xuan, caught and overturned Zhang Mingze’s car, then crushed Zhang Mingze’s neck. Shangguan Xiao saw the signal confirming Zhang Mingze’s death and escaped Yan Yichen, while Yu Hu received news of the outcome.

• Yu Hu worried about Zhang Mingze after learning that forces had been drawn away from the outskirts, then heard distant explosions and feared the worst.
• Li Fei killed Yang Xuan with Blood Fiend and chased down the fleeing Qilin car, overturning it in the street.
• Li Fei battered through the car’s bulletproof window, deflected Zhang Mingze’s shots, and dragged him out.
• Zhang Mingze admitted he had underestimated Li Fei, but Li Fei refused to reveal his identity and crushed Zhang Mingze’s neck.
• Li Fei fired a signal gun, and Shangguan Xiao used the news of Zhang Mingze’s death to defeat Yan Yichen and escape toward Qingyuan District.
• Yu Hu saw the firework and received a subordinate’s report about what had happened.

After Zhang Mingze’s death, Gu Zhenhui sought cooperation with Qingyuan Fist Fortress and mobilized the City Guard against Tiger Sabre Gang. Li Fei assessed his new Blood Demon transformation, returned to the streets, and learned that Shangguan Xiao had refused to align with the Chief’s faction.

• Gu Zhenhui concluded that Qingyuan Fist Fortress might cooperate with Blue-Faced Ghost, ordered the Overseeing Bureau to withdraw, and sent Cheng Bi to contact the Fortress’s Big Boss.
• After reading the battle report, Gu Zhenhui ordered Wei Ge and the City Guard to arrest those causing trouble in Wuguang District, declaring that anyone who resisted should be killed.
• Wei Ge learned of the order, celebrated the chance to move against Tiger Sabre Gang, killed the black tiger at the training ground, and led his troops out.
• Li Fei examined the cost and strength of his Blood Demon transformation, erased traces of his presence, and went to a noodle shop in a changed outfit.
• Li Fei saw City Guard vehicles pass and heard gunfire resume, then called Shangguan Xiao and learned that Gu Zhenhui had approached her about an alliance.
• Shangguan Xiao told Li Fei she distrusted both Tiger Sabre Gang and Gu Zhenhui’s faction, and Li Fei agreed there was no need to join forces.

Gu Zhenhui launched the City Guard against the weakened Tiger Sabre Gang after Qingyuan Fist Fortress refused to cooperate. As the City Guard slaughtered gang members and civilians in Wuguang District, Yan Yichen kept the Cessation of Hostilities Bureau out of the fight and left his ties to the Tiger Sabre Gang uncertain.

• Cheng Bi reported that Xiang Du had refused Gu Zhenhui's request to meet the Big Boss of Qingyuan Fist Fortress.
• Gu Zhenhui ordered the Surveillance Bureau to support the City Guard's attack on the Tiger Sabre Gang, dismissing concerns about civilian casualties.
• Wei Ge used his Geomagnetic Force to disarm Tiger Sabre Gang members and led the City Guard in a brutal assault, killing everyone inside a general store.
• The City Guard gained the upper hand as Zhang Mingze's death left the Tiger Sabre Gang's forces disorganized and vulnerable to hidden Surveillance Bureau agents.
• Yan Yichen ordered Hong Jing and the Cessation of Hostilities Bureau experts to stay out of the fighting, then questioned whether Hong Jing served him or Yu Hu.

Yu Hu mobilized the Tiger Sabre Gang’s allies as the City Guard attacked in Wuguang District, turning the clash into a confrontation among Xingcheng’s officials. When Wei Ge attacked Li Lei during a standoff, Li Fei stepped in and blocked the blow, leaving the battle poised to escalate.

• Yu Hu ordered the Tiger Sabre Gang and its allies in the Military Academy to reinforce Wuguang District, then directed Wu Yihua to stop the City Guard.
• Wu Yihua assembled the Overseeing Bureau and sent its forces to intervene, where they clashed with the City Guard and pushed back its advance.
• Li Lei brought Li Fei with the First Brigade to the battlefield, where they saw the dead and the fighting between the City Guard and the Tiger Sabre Gang.
• Wu Yihua argued with Wei Ge over the City Guard’s authority, but Wei Ge advanced with his blade and forced Li Lei to block his path.
• Wei Ge swung at Li Lei, and Li Fei drew an inspector’s saber and used the Rolling Thunder Stance to knock the blow aside.

Li Fei blocked Wei Ge’s attack, and Li Lei’s First Brigade stood against the City Guard as Fang Ti and Yu Hu arrived to rally the Tiger Sabre Gang. The standoff ended with Li Lei ordering his brigade to lower their guns while facing Yu Hu, and the First Brigade followed his command over Chief Inspector Wu Yihua’s objections.

• Li Fei used Overlord Body and his saber to deflect Wei Ge’s attack, taking a shoulder wound while Li Lei ordered the First Brigade to open fire.
• Wei Ge used his Magnetic Tail implant to repel the bullets, and Li Lei’s men rallied around him as Wu Yihua watched in anger.
• Fang Ti fired a wooden arrow that struck Wei Ge’s blade, prompting the City Guard and First Brigade to form opposing attack formations.
• Yu Hu arrived, declared the Tiger Sabre Gang’s defiance, and summoned martial warriors and armed men to surround the City Guard.
• Li Lei cited the law and ordered the First Brigade to aim their guns at the Tiger Sabre Gang, despite Wu Yihua’s protests.
• Li Lei ordered everyone to lower their guns while pointing at Yu Hu, and the First Brigade obeyed him.

Yu Hu intervened in the standoff between the City Guard and the Overseeing Bureau, but Hao Yi and Li Fei confronted him over his threats. Yu Hu revealed that he was a powerful Dao Foundation Stage expert, then claimed Hao Yi’s martial foundation was badly damaged, leaving Li Fei searching for a way to break the deadlock.

• Yu Hu ordered Li Lei’s men to lower their guns and threatened that officials could die in the riot, while Li Fei challenged him.
• Hao Yi arrived to protect Li Fei and claimed Li Lei had invited him to help stop the fighting in Wuguang District.
• Li Fei told Yu Hu that he would kill him if he harmed Li Lei, and Yu Hu demanded to know what Hao Yi intended to do.
• Yu Hu released Frosty Asura Snowdrift Force, revealing that he had reached the Dao Foundation Stage and incorporated three implants.
• Yu Hu claimed that Hao Yi’s martial foundation had suffered severe damage, prompting Li Fei to worry and look for a way to break the standoff.

Hao Yi fought Yu Hu in Wuguang District after Yu Hu exposed the damage to Hao Yi’s Dao Foundation. As the battle continued, Shangguan Xiao stayed behind, confident that her Senior Brother could defeat Yu Hu despite his weakened foundation.

• Hao Yi accepted Yu Hu’s challenge, and Yu Hu used his Frosty Asura Snowdrift Force to draw him into a snowy battlefield.
• Shangguan Xiao learned that Yu Hu was a Dao Foundation expert and that Hao Yi’s Dao Foundation had been severely damaged, but she chose not to go to Wuguang District.
• Yu Hu’s blizzard and bone-spike attacks failed to overcome Hao Yi’s Furnace Force, which melted the bone spike and countered the ice.
• Hao Yi and Yu Hu fought inside a pillar of fire as Li Fei watched anxiously, unable to intervene after exhausting much of his strength.
• Shangguan Xiao told Xiang Du that Hao Yi was her Senior Brother and insisted that his damaged Dao Foundation did not make him weaker than other people.

Hao Yi defeated Yu Hu and Wei Ge, forcing the Tiger Sabre Gang and City Guard to withdraw from the clash in Xingcheng. After learning that the Big Boss of Qingyuan Fist Fortress had left safely, Hao Yi told Li Fei she was his martial aunt, and the two returned to the Military Academy as their names drew the city’s attention.

• Hao Yi revealed Heaven and Earth Furnace Force and defeated Yu Hu, who admitted defeat and ordered the Tiger Sabre Gang to surrender its guns and leave.
• Wu Yihua persuaded Li Lei to let the Tiger Sabre Gang withdraw to avoid escalating the battle, while Li Lei accepted that he lacked the power to arrest Yu Hu.
• Hao Yi confronted Wei Ge for slashing Li Fei and knocked him into a crater before the City Guard withdrew.
• Li Lei sent the Overseeing Bureau Inspectors to rescue civilians injured in the clash, then thanked Hao Yi for intervening.
• Li Fei told Hao Yi that the Big Boss of Qingyuan Fist Fortress had left safely, and Hao Yi revealed she was Li Fei’s martial aunt.
• Hao Yi and Li Fei returned to the Military Academy, while people across Xingcheng began talking about Hao Yi and the Blue-Faced Ghost.

Gu Zhenhui ordered an investigation into Yu Hu’s secret Cold River Snow cultivation method, moved to promote Li Lei, and launched a purge of Tiger Sabre Gang allies at the Military Academy. There, Shangguan Xiao gave Li Fei a powerful Exotic Weapon he named Ghost Cleaver, just as the Surveillance Bureau and City Guard began their operation.

• Gu Zhenhui learned Yu Hu had reached the Dao Foundation stage and ordered the Surveillance Bureau to find out who had given him the Cold River Snow cultivation method.
• Gu Zhenhui ordered Li Lei commended and nominated for promotion, then directed the Surveillance Bureau to clear Tiger Sabre Gang members out of the Military Academy.
• Li Fei met Shangguan Xiao in Hao Yi’s office, where she formally welcomed him and gave him a Fifth-Grade Exotic Weapon suited to his future Primal Chaos Heavenly Gold Dao Foundation.
• Li Fei named the saber Ghost Cleaver, and Hao Yi mistakenly took the name as a sign of Li Fei’s admiration for the Blue-Faced Ghost.
• Surveillance Bureau and City Guard personnel entered the Military Academy, and gunshots soon rang out inside.

After the Surveillance Bureau and City Guard moved against the Tiger Sabre Gang’s faction at the Military Academy, Li Fei revealed his role as a Secret Supervisory Agent and joined the operation. By its end, key academy figures had been arrested and the gang’s control of the school had collapsed.

• Cheng Bi summoned Li Fei for the Surveillance Bureau’s operation, and Li Fei told Hao Yi and Shangguan Xiao that he was a Secret Supervisory Agent.
• Hao Yi told Li Fei to do what he believed was right, while Cheng Bi explained that Gu Zhenhui was targeting the Tiger Sabre Gang’s allies and supporting Li Lei’s advancement.
• Cheng Bi and Li Fei joined the City Guard in arresting Military Academy Dean Li Shengjiang, a deputy dean, and a Special Grade Instructor.
• Cheng Bi offered Li Fei the chance to arrest Yuan Dao, but Li Fei declined and let the officers take Yuan Dao and his accomplices into custody.
• The operation ended in less than an hour, bringing the Tiger Sabre Gang’s control of the Xing City Military Academy to an end.

Li Fei identified the final remnant of his Heart Barrier and killed corrupt officials as the Blue-Faced Ghost, finally clearing the barrier and nearing a breakthrough to the Qi Transformation Stage. The second Market Entrance incident left Xingcheng’s factions unable to pursue him and prompted a wave of official self-surrenders.

• Li Fei received an A+ assessment and fifty each of Bitter Essence Pills and Lucid Pills after assisting Cheng Bi in arresting the Tiger Sabre Gang’s people at the Military Academy.
• Li Fei reflected on his Heart Barrier, realized it stemmed from the powerlessness of his previous life, and asked Shangguan Xiao to gather information on corrupt officials.
• Li Fei killed Kong Peiquan and his bodyguard, then executed seven subordinate officials and eleven functionaries and displayed their heads at the Market Entrance with plaques listing their crimes.
• Li Fei watched dawn break and felt every knot in his heart dissolve, leaving no Heart Barrier.
• Gu Zhenhui and Yu Hu continued fighting each other instead of joining forces against the Blue-Faced Ghost, while officials across Xingcheng began turning themselves in.

Li Fei awakened Innate One Qi with Shangguan Xiao’s help and officially entered the Qi Transformation Stage. Shangguan Xiao explained that his Qi type would affect his chances of cultivating Primal Chaos Heavenly Gold, then brought out an Eight Trigrams Plate to discern it.

• Li Fei practiced combining his mind, body, and Steel Armor Implant, then sparred with Shangguan Xiao until the Myriad Blood Bead reached level 10.
• On September 27, Li Fei drew the embryonic heat from his Implant and awakened Innate One Qi as Shangguan Xiao guided him through his first circulation.
• Shangguan Xiao congratulated Li Fei on entering the Qi Transformation Stage and explained that breaking through the Heart Barrier could greatly improve his Implant compatibility.
• Shangguan Xiao described the possible attributes and types of Innate One Qi, noting that primal Qi or rare True Qi would best support Li Fei’s goal of cultivating Primal Chaos Heavenly Gold.
• Shangguan Xiao brought Li Fei a stone Eight Trigrams Plate and told him to inject his Innate One Qi to discern its type.

Li Fei discovered that he had cultivated Geng Metal True Qi and learned that he needed to comprehend a pure Heart of Slaughter to advance further. Meanwhile, Yu Hu and Zhao Yu reunited to revive their plans and decided to target Li Fei as a way to eliminate three of their enemies.

• Li Fei used the Eight Trigrams Plate to confirm that his Innate One Qi was Geng Metal True Qi, and Shangguan Xiao explained its qualities and advantages.
• Shangguan Xiao taught Li Fei that Qi Transformation Stage cultivation required developing a state of mind and that his path would involve comprehending a pure Heart of Slaughter on the battlefield.
• Zhao Yu returned to Xingcheng with members of the Tranquil God Sect and met Yu Hu, who revealed that he was a Dao Foundation Stage expert.
• Yu Hu and Zhao Yu agreed to cooperate in rebuilding their fortunes and proceed with their earlier plan, relying on Yan Yichen's cooperation.
• Yu Hu identified the Big Boss of Qingyuan Fist Fortress, Hao Yi, and Li Lei as obstacles, then proposed capturing Li Fei to create an opportunity to eliminate all three.

Li Fei won the September Arena Tournament and trained to control his Geng Metal True Qi, then learned to transform the Ghost Slayer Blade and made a stronger mask for Blue-Faced Ghost. As the Chief’s faction gained ground against the Tiger Sabre Gang, Yu Hu prepared a new move to throw Xingcheng into chaos.

• Li Fei won first place in the September Arena Tournament after presenting himself as a Body Refining Middle Stage cultivator.
• During October, Li Fei trained with Hao Yi by day and cultivated under Shangguan Xiao at night, increasing his Blood Soul to 141 beads and improving his control over Geng Metal True Qi.
• Shangguan Xiao taught Li Fei to use the Ghost Slayer Blade’s transformation ability, and he learned to alter its shape and color.
• Li Fei transformed the blade’s removable guard into a durable Azure Ghoul Mask that could tighten securely around his head.
• Yu Hu met with a muscular stranger who confirmed everything was ready, and Yu Hu declared that it was time to turn Xingcheng upside down.

After becoming Deputy Overseeing Bureau Chief, Li Lei recruited Lu Sheng to help investigate whether the Tiger Sabre Gang was involved in Lu Changwu’s death and to challenge Wu Yihua. That night, news of bandits attacking Luo Family Town raised concerns about a threat near Xingcheng, which Li Fei considered as the wind rose.

• Gu Zhenhui secured approval for Li Lei’s appointment as Deputy Overseeing Bureau Chief and First Brigade captain, prompting officials to declare their support for Li Lei while Wu Yihua resolved to wait before acting.
• Li Lei summoned Lu Sheng and suggested that Yu Hu and the Tiger Sabre Gang might have been involved in the incident that killed Lu Changwu.
• Li Lei promised to transfer Lu Sheng back to the First Brigade and support his investigation in exchange for help against Wu Yihua and the Tiger Sabre Gang.
• Lu Sheng agreed to help Li Lei but insisted that he would seek revenge if he proved the Tiger Sabre Gang was connected to his son’s death.
• Li Fei heard a radio report that bandits had attacked Luo Family Town, and Li Lei explained that suppressing them fell to the City Guard rather than the Overseeing Bureau.

Gu Zhenhui asked Hao Yi to track down the horse bandits threatening towns near Xingcheng, while Hao Yi challenged Gu’s excuses for tolerating corrupt officials. Hao Yi agreed to act according to his conscience and set out to face the suspicious threat, with Li Fei urging him to stay safe.

• After horse bandits attacked Tu Mountain Town and Surveillance Bureau scouts vanished, Gu Zhenhui suspected the Tiger Sabre Gang but could not confirm the bandits’ backing or locate their base.
• At the Military Academy, Li Fei sparred with Hao Yi and demonstrated how his Danger Perception let him anticipate attacks even while blindfolded and deafened.
• Gu Zhenhui visited Hao Yi and asked him to find the horse bandits, bowing and arguing that their attacks endangered innocent people.
• Hao Yi rejected Gu Zhenhui’s claim that corrupt officials were minor sacrifices needed to defeat the Tiger Sabre Gang, but agreed to act on his own sense of justice.
• After Gu Zhenhui left, Li Fei told Hao Yi to do what he believed was right and warned him to be careful; Hao Yi said no one in Xingcheng could stop him from leaving if he chose to.

Yu Hu ordered an attack after Hao Yi left Xingcheng to track bandits, while Li Fei unlocked the Blood Might skill and was ambushed at the Military Academy. The chapter ended as Li Fei recognized his attacker as the Blue-Faced Ghost.

• Yu Hu learned that Hao Yi had left the city and ordered his people to monitor the City Guard and alert Gray Eagle to act.
• Cheng Bi told Gu Zhenhui that roughly fifty armed bandits were near Liu Family Town, and Gu Zhenhui ordered Hao Yi to wipe them out.
• Li Fei upgraded the Myriad Blood Bead to Level 11, gained twenty Blood Souls, and unlocked Blood Might, a single-target mental shock skill.
• A Military Academy staff member summoned Li Fei to see the Academy Head, and Li Fei brought the Ghost Slayer Blade with him.
• An attacker used fire-attribute force to ambush Li Fei among the ginkgo trees, forcing Li Fei to activate Overlord Body.
• Li Fei saw that the masked attacker was the Blue-Faced Ghost.

Li Fei was abducted by a man posing as Blue-Faced Ghost, but he turned the ambush around and captured the impostor. Yu Hu then launched an attack on Xingcheng’s East City Gate, and Gu Zhenhui called on the city’s forces and the Chen Family to help stop the rebellion as the sky darkened.

• A masked attacker struck Li Fei with Icefire Astral Qi and carried him away, leading witnesses to believe Blue-Faced Ghost had abducted him.
• Gu Zhenhui concluded the masked attacker was one of Yu Hu’s men and ordered Level One Combat Readiness.
• Li Fei discovered the impostor examining the Ghost Slayer Blade, struck him from behind, and declared that the blade and Blue-Faced Ghost identity were his.
• Yu Hu learned the abduction had succeeded, told an unknown contact to make a move, and announced that it was time for the sky to change.
• Yu Hu’s men killed the City Guard at the East City Gate, seized their rifles, and fought the arriving reinforcements.
• Gu Zhenhui ordered Wei Ge to bring the City Guard to the Administrative Office, sent his secretary to rally other forces, and secured Chen Yujing’s promise that the Chen Family would act; the sky grew gloomy.