Chapter Summaries

Chen Yujing was pressured by Yu Hu’s blackmail, while Shangguan Xiao and Li Lei were forced to hold back as the Tiger Sabre Gang’s attack on Xingcheng unfolded. Zhao Yu led the Tranquil God Sect through the fallen East City Gate, leaving the city under threat of a major assault.

• Chen Yujing received evidence of Chen Yuliang’s affair with an official’s wife and recognized Yu Hu’s letter as a threat meant to keep the Chen Family from interfering.
• Shangguan Xiao received Yu Hu’s demand that Qingyuan Fist Fortress stay inside or Li Fei would be killed, and she concluded that Yu Hu planned to seize control of Xingcheng.
• Li Lei was ordered to send the First Brigade to the East City Gate, but an abductors’ call about Li Fei made him stay at the Overseeing Bureau under Wu Yihua’s orders.
• Armed men attacked the Overseeing Bureau, and Wu Yihua ordered Li Lei’s First Brigade to defend its weapons and ammunition.
• Mounted reinforcements overwhelmed the City Guard at the East City Gate, and Zhao Yu entered Xingcheng with the Tranquil God Sect.

Zhao Yu led the Tranquil God Sect and newly recruited horse bandits through Xingcheng, where Military Academy instructors and students tried to stop their advance. Qi Zhongfa and those who stood with him died resisting, leaving the enemy to continue toward the West City Gate.

• Zhao Yu led his armed force through the East City Gate and ordered the horse bandits to avoid looting and rush toward the West City Gate.
• Qi Zhongfa sent the Military Academy students to build barricades, then led the instructors in charging the advancing force.
• A Flame Burst Force martial warrior attacked Qi Zhongfa while other martial artists fought the instructors, killing many of them.
• A black-robed expert used a powerful Crimson Snake attack to burn Qi Zhongfa's arms and reveal that he was likely a Dao Foundation Stage expert.
• The black-robed expert struck Qi Zhongfa again and killed him, along with the other instructors.
• Twenty-seven students stayed to block the attackers and died after shouting the Military Academy's slogan.

Zhao Yu led the horse bandits into Kaiping District to destroy the City Guard and obtain powerful bodies for his Dao Foundation Clone. As his clone and spellcasters fought Wei Ge’s forces, Shangguan Xiao, Yu Hu, and Yan Yichen also mobilized their forces, leaving Xingcheng on the brink of a wider battle.

• Zhao Yu revealed that he had used Wang Ping and the Corpse Cluster Implant to become a Possession Stage Grand Mage and create a Dao Foundation Clone.
• Zhao Yu’s group entered Kaiping District and confronted Wei Ge’s armored cavalry on a wide main road.
• Wei Ge charged with the Azure Nightmare Horse, but Wang Ping’s clone shattered his attack, sent him flying, and killed the horse.
• Wei Ge ordered the City Guard to charge, while Zhao Yu sent Yu Hu’s experts and Demonic Path Martial Warriors to meet them.
• Zhao Yu and six Tranquil God Sect spellcasters cast the Tranquilizing Spell, causing warhorses to collapse and disrupting the cavalry formation as the clone attacked.
• Shangguan Xiao led Qingyuan Fist Fortress’s elite forces toward Kaiping District, while Yu Hu and Yan Yichen also set out with their forces.

Li Fei interrogated the captured Force-Refining Martial Warrior and learned he was from Mega Country, while Lu Sheng uncovered the Tiger Sabre Gang’s link to the Tranquil God Sect and helped Li Lei seize control of the Overseeing Bureau. The chapter ended with more than two hundred Overseeing Bureau combat personnel breaking through the blockade and heading toward Kaiping District.

• Li Fei poisoned the captured Force-Refining Martial Warrior with Nether Spring Poison until he confessed that his real name was Hu En Tuso and that he came from Mega Country.
• Lu Sheng told Li Lei that the Tranquil God Sect had entered Xingcheng and that the Tiger Sabre Gang had secretly arranged the Mount Luo accident and Changwu’s death.
• Lu Sheng confronted Wu Yihua about his cooperation with the Tranquil God Sect, then attacked him and took him hostage.
• Li Lei joined Lu Sheng, subdued Wu Yihua’s guards, and used Lu Sheng’s connections and influence to secure control of the Overseeing Bureau.
• Lu Sheng forced Wu Yihua to summon his trusted men, and more than two hundred Overseeing Bureau combat personnel broke through the blockade and headed toward Kaiping District.

Zhao Yu’s forces defeated the City Guard, and Zhao Yu hurried to Anshan Street as the Tiger Sabre Gang and the Cessation of Hostilities Bureau fought Qingyuan Fist Fortress. Shangguan Xiao was left facing Yu Hu, Yan Yichen, and Zhao Yu’s Dao Foundation Clone, while the Blue-Faced Ghost carried Li Fei toward the battle.

• Zhao Yu’s Dao Foundation Clone broke the City Guard’s charge and routed its troops, while Zhao Yu ordered the captured martial officers brought to him and chained Wei Ge.
• Zhao Yu learned that Shangguan Xiao and the Big Boss of Qingyuan Fist Fortress had arrived at Anshan Street, then led his forces there.
• Gu Zhenhui learned of the City Guard’s defeat and realized he would be held responsible for the invasion and rout.
• Shangguan Xiao brought her fighters to Anshan Street, where Yan Yichen accused Qingyuan Fist Fortress of colluding with the Tranquil God Sect and attacked her.
• Yu Hu joined Yan Yichen against Shangguan Xiao as the Tiger Sabre Gang overwhelmed Qingyuan Fist Fortress’s fighters.
• Zhao Yu’s Dao Foundation Clone arrived and pretended to attack Shangguan Xiao, but she was soon wounded while facing all three Dao Foundation Stage experts; the Blue-Faced Ghost carried Li Fei toward the fight.

Li Fei infiltrated Zhao Yu’s forces disguised as Blue-Faced Ghost and killed Zhao Yu, breaking the siege on Shangguan Xiao and turning the battle. With Zhao Yu dead, his Dao Foundation Clone unexpectedly resumed its attack on Shangguan Xiao.

• The Overseeing Bureau arrived in Kaiping District, and Lu Sheng led the First Brigade in an assault that broke through the mounted bandits’ defenses.
• An impostor posing as Blue-Faced Ghost claimed to hold Li Lei’s son hostage and made the Overseeing Bureau halt its advance.
• The impostor reached Zhao Yu’s guards, then revealed himself as Li Fei and killed the guarding Demonic Path Martial Warrior with Blood Might and a blade strike.
• Li Fei ignored Zhao Yu’s suppression spell, beheaded him, and raised his head so the battlefield could see that Zhao Yu was dead.
• Li Lei ordered the Overseeing Bureau to resume its attack, while Zhao Yu’s death halted the Dao Foundation Clone and let Shangguan Xiao strike it back.
• The Dao Foundation Clone suddenly regained movement and charged Shangguan Xiao again.

After Zhao Yu transferred his mind into his Dao Foundation Clone, Li Fei fought through the Cessation of Hostilities Bureau’s Registered Martial Masters and slaughtered Tiger Sabre Gang members on his way to the battle between the four Dao Foundation experts. He reached the battlefield as Nie Yang withdrew, officially joining the fight.

• Zhao Yu’s Dao Foundation Clone revealed that he had survived by transferring his mind into it, at the cost of his lifespan and any chance to advance beyond the early Possession Stage.
• Hong Jing and Dai Huaxing attacked Li Fei together, but Li Fei crippled Dai Huaxing’s chain weapons, killed Hong Jing, and then beheaded Dai Huaxing.
• After spending more than sixty-five Blood Souls, Li Fei cut through the Tiger Sabre Gang members who tried to stop him.
• Nie Yang withdrew after Yan Yichen signaled him, and Li Fei joined the battle between the four Dao Foundation experts.

Li Fei entered the Blood Demon State and fought Zhao Yu’s Dao Foundation Clone after Zhao Yu’s attack seemed to leave him defeated. Li Fei killed the clone by using Blood Might to shatter Zhao Yu’s remaining mind, ending Zhao Yu’s life regardless of any other preparations or clones.

• Zhao Yu sent his Dao Foundation Clone to attack Li Fei while Yu Hu and Yan Yichen continued pressuring Shangguan Xiao.
• Li Fei endured two Crimson Scale Forces, entered the Blood Demon State, and overpowered Zhao Yu in close combat.
• Li Fei drove Zhao Yu into a pond and kept him underwater, where Zhao Yu repeatedly struck him with Crimson Scale Force.
• Li Fei used Blood Might to immobilize Zhao Yu, cleaved his body in half, then unleashed another Blood Might that scattered Zhao Yu’s last strand of mental power.

Li Fei killed Zhao Yu and exposed Yu Hu’s years of collusion with Mega Country while fighting him. As the Tiger Sabre Gang and Yan Yichen hesitated over the accusation, Yan Yichen suddenly turned on Yu Hu, leaving the battle’s outcome unresolved.

• Li Fei threw Zhao Yu’s head toward the fighting Dao Foundation experts, and Shangguan Xiao celebrated while Yu Hu was stunned.
• Li Fei accused Yu Hu of working with Mega Country and revealed that the captured Hu En Tuso had confessed to their conspiracy.
• As Li Fei fought Yu Hu, he shouted the accusations to the nearby fighters, causing the Tiger Sabre Gang and Yan Yichen’s Cessation of Hostilities Bureau experts to waver and stop attacking.
• Shangguan Xiao joined Li Fei against Yu Hu, but Yu Hu persuaded Yan Yichen to attack them, and Yan Yichen forced Shangguan Xiao back.
• When Yu Hu turned to attack Li Fei again, Yan Yichen suddenly launched a golden sword ray at Yu Hu.

Li Fei, Shangguan Xiao, and Yan Yichen defeated Yu Hu, and Li Fei killed the Tiger Sabre Gang leader before revealing Yan Yichen’s crimes and handing him to the Overseeing Bureau. After the gang’s collapse exposed a wider spy network, Lu Sheng killed Wu Yihua to eliminate a threat to himself and Li Lei; later, Shangguan Xiao asked Li Fei whether he would claim power in Xingcheng as the Blue-Faced Ghost.

• Li Fei used Blood Soul Might to help Yan Yichen and Shangguan Xiao defeat Yu Hu, then killed Yu Hu and announced his death to the city.
• Li Fei and Shangguan Xiao captured Yan Yichen, whose secret cultivation of Demonic Art was exposed, and Li Fei turned him over to Li Lei.
• The Tiger Sabre Gang’s surviving members surrendered or fled, while Li Fei returned to the Overseeing Bureau with Hu En Tuso’s corpse and evidence of foreign spies and treason.
• Lu Sheng explained that Wu Yihua might escape punishment without Yu Hu and Zhang Mingze to testify, then shot Wu Yihua dead and accepted the consequences.
• Shangguan Xiao told Li Fei that the Chen Family would rise after the Tiger Sabre Gang’s collapse and asked whether he would claim Xingcheng’s martial world as the Blue-Faced Ghost.

Li Fei agreed to take over the Tiger Sabre Gang under the name of the Blue-Faced Ghost King and reshape Xingcheng’s underworld, while Shangguan Xiao planned to become Chief of the Cessation of Hostilities Bureau. As officials and underworld figures maneuvered after Yu Hu’s downfall, Li Fei gathered the remnants of the gang at Qingyuan Fist Fortress to begin his new rule.

• Shangguan Xiao explained that she wanted Li Fei to rebuild the Tiger Sabre Gang and impose his own rules, while she pursued the post of Chief of the Cessation of Hostilities Bureau and planned to entrust him with Qingyuan Fist Fortress.
• Gu Zhenhui persuaded Li Lei to cooperate on a cover story that would portray Wu Yihua as a traitor and turn Li Lei’s killing of him into a merit, then asked only for credit that could help him leave office safely.
• Chen Li tried to buy the Tiger Sabre Gang’s businesses at unfair prices, but Liu San’er arrived with He Yun on behalf of the Blue-Faced Ghost King, prompting Chen Li to withdraw.
• Liu San’er and He Yun spent several days taking over the Tiger Sabre Gang’s businesses, while Datong Prefecture’s Investigation Team arrived and Xingcheng’s officials faced scrutiny over their ties to the gang.
• More than three hundred gang leaders, business managers, and martial artists gathered at Qingyuan Fist Fortress, where Liu San’er arranged them into ranks and the Blue-Faced Ghost King appeared to their salute.

Li Fei rebuilt the Tiger Sabre Gang as the Qingyuan City Enforcers Company, executing its most notorious members and imposing new rules on its businesses. The chapter ended with Li Fei telling Shangguan Xiao that the company’s future depended on whether its city enforcement work succeeded.

• Li Fei had Qingyuan Fist Fortress experts execute dozens of the Tiger Sabre Gang’s worst offenders before announcing new rules to the survivors.
• Liu San'er read Li Fei’s rules, which closed Dark Opium Dens, banned murder and human trafficking, regulated other businesses, and turned protection fees into a City Enforcement Fee tied to public services.
• Liu San'er announced that the gang would become the Qingyuan City Enforcers Company and led the survivors in its slogan, “Be a good person, strive every day!”
• Li Fei put Liu San'er in charge of the company’s public affairs and warned him that the role carried serious risks; Liu San'er accepted and thanked him.
• Shangguan Xiao praised Liu San'er’s loyalty and asked whether the costly city enforcement work was worthwhile, and Li Fei said it would determine the company’s future.

After the Tiger Sabre Gang’s collapse, Xingcheng’s officials faced punishments and promotions, while Shangguan Xiao warned Li Fei that the investigation into foreign spies would continue. The Chen Family then requested a meeting with Li Fei over the exotic-beast breeding farm, leaving him to face a new dispute as one of Xingcheng’s rising tycoons.

• Li Lei explained that Yan Yichen had used Demonic Art to repair his damaged Implant by seizing others’ Implants, and that he had worked with the Mega Country spies and Yu Hu’s Tiger Sabre Gang to obtain victims.
• The Provincial City Investigation Team’s findings led to Gu Zhenhui’s retirement, Yan Yichen’s execution sentence, the prosecution of Tiger Sabre Gang associates, and promotions for Li Lei and others.
• Shangguan Xiao told Li Fei that she was expected to become Chief of the Cessation of Hostilities Bureau and that the Datong Prefecture Surveillance Headquarters might recruit him to investigate the spies.
• Shangguan Xiao explained that Yu Hu’s missing fortune might have been taken by the Mega Country spies and warned that the inquiry could implicate people for years.
• Xiang Du reported that the Chen Family had arrived to see the Blue-Faced Ghost King, and Shangguan Xiao said they likely wanted to discuss the exotic-beast breeding farm they had taken over.
• Li Fei agreed to meet the Chen Family after learning that they had refused to yield the farm to the Qingyuan City Enforcers Company.

Li Fei refused the Chen Family’s attempt to settle the exotic-beast farm dispute cheaply, while Chen Yujing and Chen Yuzhi enlisted Zhang Shan from Datong Prefecture to kill him. Two days later, Li Fei confronted Zhang Shan in an alley and drew his blade.

• Chen Yuzhi offered Li Fei six hundred thousand for the exotic-beast farm, but Li Fei rejected the deal and warned that the Qingyuan City Enforcers Company would reclaim it.
• Shangguan Xiao advised Li Fei that the farm was important despite the danger of provoking Datong Prefecture’s forces.
• Chen Yuzhi reported Li Fei’s refusal to Chen Yujing and Zhang Shan, who decided to lure Li Fei out and kill him while the Chen Family kept Shangguan Xiao occupied.
• The Chen Family continued occupying the exotic-beast farm, and Zhang Shan left his residence two days later to visit a brothel.
• Li Fei confronted Zhang Shan in a deserted alley and drew the Ghost Slayer Blade.

Li Fei and Shangguan Xiao confronted Zhang Shan, the Dao Foundation Stage expert sent by the Beast King's faction to aid the Chen Family. After Li Fei tested his new fighting technique, their allies joined the battle, and the group attacked Zhang Shan together.

• Li Fei and Shangguan Xiao learned that the Beast King's faction had sent Zhang Shan to help the Chen Family seize the exotic beast farm.
• Li Fei challenged Zhang Shan alone and endured his Dark Flame Force while testing his Geng Metal True Qi and blade techniques.
• Zhang Shan unleashed Dark Flame Raging Dragon Force, but Li Fei combined Geng Metal True Qi with Blood Fiend Aura and wounded him.
• Li Fei called for reinforcements, and Shangguan Xiao joined the fight, striking Zhang Shan while Li Fei restrained him.
• Cao Mu arrived and struck Zhang Shan, while the other allies and the Overseeing Bureau worked to stop the Chen Family's reinforcements.
• Li Fei, Shangguan Xiao, and Cao Mu charged Zhang Shan together.

Li Fei, Shangguan Xiao, and Cao Mu defeated Zhang Shan, then Li Fei prepared to travel to Datong Prefecture. After refining True Blood Force and upgrading the Myriad Blood Bead, Li Fei entered the prefecture disguised as Blue-Faced Ghost King, drawing the attention of its forces.

• Li Fei, Shangguan Xiao, and Cao Mu overwhelmed Zhang Shan in a narrow alley, exhausting his healing Life Essence and severely injuring him until he could no longer fight.
• Li Fei left Zhang Shan alive as a bargaining chip and decided to go to Datong Prefecture to negotiate with the Beast King for exotic beast feed and prepare Blue-Faced Ghost's arrival.
• The Myriad Blood Bead upgraded to level 12, increasing Li Fei's Blood Souls to 183.
• With Shangguan Xiao's guidance, Li Fei refined his fusion of Blood Fiend Aura and Geng Metal True Qi, naming the resulting force True Blood Force.
• Li Fei entered Datong Prefecture City wearing an Azure Ghoul Mask, and its forces received news that Blue-Faced Ghost King had arrived.

Li Fei entered Datong Prefecture City, used the Zhang family’s backing to negotiate with Yu Longqing, and safely left Human-Faced Mountain Manor with an invitation from Feng Sanniang. Back in Xingcheng, he received a special-admission place to Wu'an University and prepared to leave for Datong Prefecture City, where he would begin the next stage of his journey.

• Li Fei entered Datong Prefecture City and confronted Yu Longqing at Human-Faced Mountain Manor, where the Beast King threatened him with an exotic beast before learning that the Zhang family backed him.
• Yu Longqing agreed to let Li Fei leave, and Feng Sanniang sent him an invitation after he walked safely out of the manor.
• Cheng Bi and Xia Huan promoted Li Fei’s Secret Supervisory Agent status and tasked him with investigating foreign spies at Wu'an University and reporting on the Blue-Faced Ghost.
• The new Chief Inspector arrived in Xingcheng with Li Fei’s special-admission place to Wu'an University’s Conflict Mitigation Department, allowing him to enroll ahead of schedule.
• Li Fei told Hao Yi he would leave for Datong Prefecture City on January 1, bowed to his teacher, and set out toward a new future.

Li Fei traveled toward Wu'an University and caught a woman using a sleep spell to rob passengers on the train. After she claimed to be a disciple of the Nightmare Sect, she tried to attack him with a hidden spell, but he remained ready with his gun and forced her to kneel again.

• Li Fei left Qingyuan City for Datong Prefecture City, where he planned to study at Wu'an University and secretly build his influence as the Blue-Faced Ghost.
• After missing the last train from Mingqi, Li Fei stayed overnight and boarded a special-class compartment the next morning, where he cultivated during the journey.
• Li Fei sensed someone casting a spell outside his compartment and caught a short-haired woman breaking in with stolen valuables and lime powder.
• The woman said she belonged to the Nightmare Sect, founded by the contemporary True Person Gongye Wenqi, and claimed that stealing was part of her cultivation.
• Li Fei agreed to let her leave, but she attacked his compartment with a spell from a black wooden plaque and found him waiting with his gun when she returned.

Li Fei subdued Zhao Yi after she tried to steal from him and used poison and repeated questioning to uncover her real identity and the history of the Like a Dream Order. After learning the artifact was a True Unity Magical Artifact stolen from the Nightmare Sect, he demanded Zhao Yi teach him how to cultivate spells and use it.

• Li Fei dragged Zhao Yi into a private room, poisoned her, and threatened her until she answered his questions.
• Zhao Yi initially claimed she was a Nightmare Sect disciple seeking money for cultivation and revenge, but Li Fei’s repeated questioning exposed her lies.
• Zhao Yi admitted she was an orphan from Datong Prefecture, raised by Zhao Renjie, a former Nightmare Sect member who had stolen the Like a Dream Order.
• Zhao Yi explained that the Like a Dream Order was a True Unity Magical Artifact and described Zhao Renjie’s failed attempt to use it to advance his cultivation.
• Li Fei gave Zhao Yi the antidote after confirming her story, then demanded that she teach him the Nightmare Sect’s cultivation method and explain how to maintain and use the artifact.

Li Fei forced Zhao Yi to reveal how to maintain the Like a Dream Order, then made her return the stolen goods and brought her with him to Datong Prefecture City. He left Zhao Yi to go home and arrived at Wu'an University to register, where he read the emperor's inscription above its main gate.

• Zhao Yi swallowed another Nether Spring Poison Pill and endured Li Fei's interrogation until he believed her account of the Like a Dream Order.
• Li Fei learned that the Like a Dream Order contained eleven Implants and required regular maintenance, then told Zhao Yi she would stay with him and help maintain it.
• Li Fei ordered Zhao Yi to return the goods she had stolen, and she came back with an empty backpack after doing her best to restore them.
• Li Fei and Zhao Yi traveled to Datong Prefecture City, where he told her to go home while he went to register at Wu'an University.
• Li Fei reached Wu'an University's guarded entrance and read the emperor's plaque: “With Martial Might, Pacify the Nation; Pillars of the Nation.”