Chapter Summaries

Zhang Xintai nearly betrayed Zhang Rongfang by planning to expose his origins and frame him for colluding with the Rebel Alliance, but he stopped himself and left. Meanwhile, Zhang Rongfang continued purging the Wish Woman’s followers, learned that Ran Xin Yue was coming to investigate him, and realized he might ask Xue Tong about the Token.

• Zhang Xintai received a Rebel Alliance message urging him to exploit Zhang Rongfang’s origins and his rescue of the Flying Bear King, but he repented before acting against him.
• A veiled woman named Ran Xin Yue entered the Prefectural Office, found Zhang Rongfang’s Waist Token, and worried about his condition.
• Zhang Rongfang and Qing Su’s forces attacked and destroyed an Earthen Fort outside Wushan Prefecture, freeing its imprisoned slaves.
• Zhang Rongfang learned that Ran Xin Yue had been sent to investigate him and postponed his campaign against the Wish Woman’s followers to deal with her arrival.
• After returning to Pine Crane Temple, Zhang Rongfang worried that the Token could reveal his Civilian Skill Cultivation, then thought of asking Xue Tong for help.

Zhang Rongfang learned that his Daozi Token might use a Gods and Buddhas Spirit Thread to measure his Civilian Skill Cultivation, so Xue Tong taught him the Toad Seal Art to conceal it briefly. As the Great Dao Sect expanded its influence, Ran Xin Yue arrived to verify Zhang Rongfang’s identity and unexpectedly tested him with the Token; he concealed his cultivation in time and passed as the genuine Daozi.

• Zhang Rongfang asked Xue Tong how the Daozi Token measured Civilian Skill Cultivation, and Xue Tong warned that a Spirit Thread inside it could forcibly transform him into a God Helmet.
• Xue Tong taught Zhang Rongfang the Toad Seal Art, which concealed his cultivation for up to one hundred breaths, and urged him to delay Worshiping God for as long as possible.
• News reached Zhang Rongfang that the Great Dao Sect had attacked the Black Ten Sect, defeated the Heaven Lock Sect, and proposed reorganizing the Bright Teaching sects under five leading sects.
• Ran Xin Yue arrived at Pine Crane Temple and rushed at Zhang Rongfang with the Token before he could properly prepare.
• Zhang Rongfang activated the Toad Seal Art just in time, pretended the Token was his identity token, and convinced Ran Xin Yue that he was the real Daozi.
• Ran Xin Yue introduced herself as Ming Chong and explained that she had come because the Grand Master was worried Zhang Rongfang had not been carrying his Token.

Ran Xin Yue warned Zhang Rongfang to avoid endangering Yue Dewen, then received an anonymous accusation that Zhang Ying was aiding the rebels and decided to investigate him herself. Yuwen Sheng revealed that he was orchestrating the accusations to exploit Zhang Rongfang’s vulnerabilities, while the larger conflict around Yue Dewen continued to grow.

• Zhang Rongfang told Ran Xin Yue that his Civilian Skill had reached Nascent Soul Late Stage, and she warned him to stay away from her and return to Qingchuan Prefecture when his work was done.
• After Ran Xin Yue left, Zhang Rongfang threw the Token away briefly to end his disguise, then hid it in his study and considered the threats and investigations he still faced.
• Ran Xin Yue found an anonymous note accusing Zhang Ying of aiding the rebel armies and killing Daoist Sect experts, and she decided to watch him directly rather than follow the note’s suggested leads.
• Yuwen Sheng discussed the accusation with a White-Clad Old Woman, saying he was acting under the Grand Master's orders and intended to add another problem for Zhang Rongfang.
• Yuwen Sheng revealed that his investigation had confirmed Zhang Ying was Zhang Rongfang and that Zhang Rongfang had ties to the Rebel Alliance, giving him many vulnerabilities to exploit.

Zhang Rongfang received word that Zhang Xuan and the others had been ambushed in Spearhead Forest and rushed to their rescue. He overwhelmed the attackers, but the female leader’s explosives released blue poisonous powder as the fight continued.

• Flying Bear King, Zhang Xuan, Zhang Xintai, and Xiao Qingying were ambushed by skilled blue-turbaned fighters in Spearhead Forest and struggled to fight them off while weakened.
• Zhang Rongfang learned from a blood-marked letter that Zhang Xuan and the others were in danger, then hurried from Pine Crane Temple to Spearhead Forest.
• Zhang Rongfang charged into the attackers, shattered their weapons, and knocked more than ten of them back with a kick.
• The female leader ordered a retreat and reached for a black round ball, but Zhang Rongfang struck her and sent it exploding in a cloud of blue poisonous powder.

Zhang Rongfang confronted Ran Xin Yue after she discovered him helping rebel forces and revealed his real identity, age, and origins. Ran Xin Yue chose not to report him, acknowledging that his extraordinary talent would protect him, and let him go.

• The Blue Turban People fled after killing their leader, while Zhang Rongfang scattered the poison powder and checked on Zhang Xuan, Xiao Qingying, and the others.
• Ran Xin Yue appeared beside the group, and Zhang Rongfang sent Flying Bear King to escort them away.
• Zhang Xuan, Zhang Xintai, and Xiao Qingying decided to leave the Rebel Alliance and hide to stop being used against Zhang Rongfang.
• Ran Xin Yue confronted Zhang Rongfang about aiding rebels and demanded that he choose between his Daozi status and his former companions.
• Zhang Rongfang revealed that his real name was Zhang Rongfang, that he was twenty-two, and that Zhang Xuan had fabricated his identity and origins.
• Ran Xin Yue admitted she would not report Zhang Rongfang because of his talent, then told him to leave and pretend he had not seen her.

After Ran Xin Yue spared Zhang Rongfang, he ordered an investigation into the Blue Turban People and sent help to rescue Ding Yu in Dan Province. Meanwhile, Yuwen Sheng allied with Kong Wen and Yao Shuchen to ambush Ran Xin Yue, and the three confronted her on a mountain road.

• Zhang Rongfang signaled Pine Crane Temple to investigate the dead Blue Turban People and ordered First Squad to find and rescue Ding Yu in Dan Province.
• Yuwen Sheng learned that Ran Xin Yue had left Zhang Rongfang without punishing him and considered using Zhang Rongyu to threaten Zhang Rongfang.
• Kong Wen and Yao Shuchen approached Yuwen Sheng and proposed joining forces against Ran Xin Yue.
• Yuwen Sheng agreed to help them attack Ran Xin Yue, and the three set off to intercept her.
• Ran Xin Yue sensed danger on a mountain road, called out her pursuers, and found Kong Wen and Yao Shuchen ahead of her and Yuwen Sheng behind her.

Ran Xin Yue was trapped and badly wounded after Kong Wen, Yuwen Sheng, and Yao Shuchen neutralized her God Descent Token and overwhelmed her. Zhang Rongfang noticed her evacuation flare, rushed to her aid, and revealed himself as he attacked the three pursuers.

• Kong Wen canceled Ran Xin Yue's God Descent Token with his own, and he, Yuwen Sheng, and Yao Shuchen attacked her.
• Zhang Rongfang initially missed Ran Xin Yue's evacuation flares while watching a play, then recognized their meaning and left to help her.
• The three pursuers repeatedly crippled Ran Xin Yue, and she was left badly injured as they prepared to finish her.
• Kong Wen struck at Ran Xin Yue as she tried to stab her own heart, but Zhang Rongfang appeared and blocked both attacks.
• Zhang Rongfang grew into a three-meter-tall form, rejected Yuwen Sheng's guess that he was Zhang Ying, and charged the three men as Zhang Rongfang.

Zhang Rongfang revealed his overwhelming power while rescuing Ran Xin Yue and fought three Grandmasters. After surviving their combined attack, he killed Kong Wen and blasted apart Yao Shuchen, leaving the battle with Yuwen Sheng unresolved.

• Ran Xin Yue recognized Zhang Rongfang as he struck Kong Wen and sent him crashing through the forest.
• Yuwen Sheng and Yao Shuchen attacked Zhang Rongfang, but he activated Heavy Mountain and drove them into the ground.
• Kong Wen transformed into a giant flesh ball and joined Yuwen Sheng and Yao Shuchen in blasting Zhang Rongfang into a boulder.
• Zhang Rongfang returned unharmed, overwhelmed Kong Wen with his speed, and tore him apart.
• Yao Shuchen transformed into his Gospel Body and claimed it was immortal, but Zhang Rongfang exploded his upper body with a punch.

Zhang Rongfang defeated and devoured three Worship God Grandmasters after revealing a power beyond their understanding. He left Ran Xin Yue behind, while a White-Haired Old Woman quietly withdrew, both shaken by the revelation that the Dao Child might be an Immortal and a Great Grandmaster.

• Yuwen Sheng, Kong Wen, and Yao Shuchen attacked Zhang Rongfang together in their Final Forms, but he healed through their blows and drained Kong Wen.
• Zhang Rongfang overpowered Yao Shuchen, drained him, and killed him as Yuwen Sheng fled.
• Zhang Rongfang intercepted Yuwen Sheng, called himself an Immortal, and killed him, leaving all three Grandmasters dead.
• Zhang Rongfang asked Ran Xin Yue whether she understood, then left as she stared in disbelief.
• A White-Haired Old Woman watched from hiding, abandoned her plan to approach Ran Xin Yue, and quietly departed.

Ran Xin Yue recovered from her defeat and concluded that the mysterious Zhang Rongfang was an Extreme Realm Great Grandmaster, then asked the Reverse Time Society to investigate him. Back in Mu Chi Prefecture, Zhang Rongfang reunited with his family and learned that Zhang Rongyu believed their circumstances had changed for the better.

• Ran Xin Yue stabilized her Final Form, met two Reverse Time Society members, and told them how a disguised Zhang Rongfang had defeated three Worship God Grandmasters.
• Ran Xin Yue and the Society members suspected the stranger was an Extreme Realm Great Grandmaster who knew her identity, and they agreed to investigate without informing Yue Dewen.
• Zhang Rongfang returned to Mu Chi Prefecture and joined Zhang Rongyu and Lu Mei Sha at the opera, where he teased Lu Mei Sha about her temper.
• Zhang Rongyu privately asked Zhang Rongfang where he served, and he admitted that his post was in Qingchuan Prefecture, Ze Province.
• Zhang Rongyu reassured Zhang Rongfang that he could return home if trouble overwhelmed him and said that she and her brother were no longer as powerless as before.

Zhang Rongfang reassured Zhang Rongyu, then questioned Xue Tong about Master Yue, the gods, and the Great Dao Sect’s Supreme Bright Void Skill. After waiting in vain for enemies or Master Yue to respond, Zhang Rongfang left for Dan Province to pursue the next level of the Golden Toad Skill and complete Blood Flesh Completion.

• Zhang Rongfang told Zhang Rongyu that he was strong and would move in with her once he had made preparations, while keeping his suspicions about Master Yue to himself.
• Zhang Rongfang met Xue Tong in meditation and tested his reaction by claiming he planned to visit Master Yue; Xue Tong warned him to avoid false Yue Dewen and explained Divine Descent and the danger of gods.
• Xue Tong taught Zhang Rongfang the Supreme Bright Void Skill through Return to Emptiness, and Zhang Rongfang discovered it matched the skill he already knew.
• Zhang Rongfang waited for half a month for the forces behind the three dead Grandmasters and Master Yue to respond, but nothing happened and Ran Xin Yue remained missing.
• Zhang Rongfang left his contact information with Zhang Rongyu and traveled toward Dan Province, hoping to advance the Golden Toad Skill and complete Blood Flesh Completion.

Zhang Rongfang met Tang Xinyi, an Extreme Realm master who tested him with her superior speed and swordsmanship. After she overwhelmed him and criticized his techniques, he revealed that his strength could stop her blade and began a much larger transformation, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Zhang Rongfang encountered Tang Xinyi in a remote gorge, where she challenged him to see whether he had reached the Extreme Realm.
• Tang Xinyi used her speed, Enemy Anticipation, and sharp treasure blade to evade Zhang Rongfang’s attacks and wound his arm.
• Tang Xinyi revealed that she had been in the Extreme Realm for over a decade and unleashed the Sincere Heart Limit State of the Five Hearts Void Stepping Scripture.
• Tang Xinyi’s blade halted at Zhang Rongfang’s heart as he caught it, and she discovered it could barely cut through his palm.
• Zhang Rongfang declared that their playtime was over, grew to four meters tall, and launched Flame Emperor Talisman: Blood Pecking Dragon at Tang Xinyi.

Zhang Rongfang defeated Tang Xinyi, an Extreme Realm Grandmaster, and claimed that his strength came from an orthodox Daoist Immortal Path rather than Worshipping God. After Tang Xinyi offered an alliance with the Reverse Time Society, he began considering whether he could turn the formation of his Blood Lotus into a teachable martial art.

• Tang Xinyi activated Void Step and attacked Zhang Rongfang, but he evaded her strikes and took the Black-Purple Collar Flower from her neck.
• Zhang Rongfang overpowered Tang Xinyi and explained that he had not Worshipped God or entered the Extreme Realm, claiming his strength came from orthodox Daoist cultivation.
• Tang Xinyi recognized that Zhang Rongfang's power was genuine and asked whether she could learn his Immortal Path.
• Tang Xinyi offered an alliance with the Reverse Time Society and gave Zhang Rongfang a Black Box for contacting its members.
• After Tang Xinyi departed, Zhang Rongfang considered how to systematize the process that had formed his Blood Lotus into a martial art.

Ding Yu tried to escape the village where Xiao Jing’s new husband was being drugged and forced to father children, but the village’s elderly-looking girl subdued him. Meanwhile, Zhang Rongfang entered Dan Province searching for Ding Yu and attacked Mo Qingyu’s group after detecting her attempt to drug him.

• Ding Yu woke among six naked women, realized he had been drugged and trapped for days, and fled the house.
• A rosy-cheeked girl paralyzed Ding Yu and revealed that the village had been using him to father talented descendants.
• Zhang Rongfang crossed into Dan Province and headed toward Cloud Glow Mountain to search for the missing Ding Yu.
• Zhang Rongfang met Mo Qingyu’s group by a campfire and refused her invitation to travel with them.
• Zhang Rongfang detected a strange scent from Mo Qingyu’s concealed hand, seized her, and knocked away her guards’ blades.
• Zhang Rongfang demanded to know who had sent Mo Qingyu and her companions.

Zhang Rongfang learned that remote parts of Dan Province treated abducting and exploiting traveling men as a local custom. Meanwhile, Ding Yu was captured by the Five Cauldrons Sect, whose leader planned to challenge the major sects with her poison-based powers and ordered him brought in for inspection.

• Zhang Rongfang resisted Mo Qingyu's sleeping drug, subdued her, and learned that she and other women abducted nonlocal men to use and trade.
• Ding Yu woke bound in an underground chamber, where Lan Siyi told him he belonged to her and dismissed his threats after finding no proof of his identity.
• Lan Siyi joined three masked women to hear the Five Cauldrons Sect Leader announce that she had Worshipped God and mastered the King of Ten Thousand Poisons.
• The Sect Leader declared that the Five Cauldrons Sect would emerge, unify the Sensing Gate, and confront the Great Dao Sect and True One Sect.
• Lan Siyi told the Sect Leader that Ding Yu claimed to be a confidant of Dao Child Zhang Ying, and the Sect Leader ordered her to bring him over.

Tong Zhang learned that she needed to recover her original desire before pursuing the paths of Extreme Law and Heavenly Demon. In Dan Province, Zhang Rongfang searched for Ding Yu, questioned the chief of Ran Xin Village, and left without learning that the village had sheltered him, though he noticed something was wrong.

• A blue-robed man warned Tong Zhang that she had forgotten why she sought strength and urged her to reclaim her memories and original desire.
• Mo Qingyu’s group brought Zhang Rongfang to Cloud Glow Mountain, where he reasoned that Ding Yu might have passed through a nearby village.
• Chen Da Niu led Zhang Rongfang and the others to Ran Xin Village, where Zhang Rongfang showed the chief, Zheng Chunjuan, a portrait of Ding Yu.
• Zheng Chunjuan pretended not to recognize Ding Yu, and Zhang Rongfang left the village after failing to detect her deception.
• As Zhang Rongfang departed, he noticed that the village had no men and stopped to question the strange absence.

Zhang Rongfang discovered that Ran Xin Village abducted men and sold Ding Yu to the Five Cauldrons Sect, then forced a villager to reveal the sect's contact point in Black Dragon City. Meanwhile, Ding Yu found a book identifying Three Sects Bewitching Incense as a Main Herb and revealing that the Five Cauldrons Sect cultivated it.

• Zhang Rongfang returned to Ran Xin Village, inhaled its Bewitching Incense unharmed, and attacked Zheng Chunjuan and the villagers when they turned on him.
• Zhang Rongfang defeated the villagers and demanded that they find Ding Yu, while Zheng Chunjuan's captive threatened companions failed to stop him.
• A young villager told Zhang Rongfang that Zheng Chunjuan had sold Ding Yu to the Five Cauldrons Sect and identified its contact point in Black Dragon City.
• Ding Yu woke in Lan Siyi's room, found himself weakened by poison, and began searching through her shelves of medicinal books.
• Ding Yu found an entry for Three Sects Bewitching Incense in World-Forsaken Sacred Medicine and learned that the Five Cauldrons Sect cultivated it.

Zhang Rongfang reached Black Dragon City seeking the Five Cauldrons Sect and learned about its hierarchy and the Heaven Lock Sect’s recent troubles. After discovering that Treasure Harmony Building’s Master Chen controlled the city, he barged into the building, where Chen Zhaorong offered to negotiate for the old man he had seized.

• Zhang Rongfang arrived in Black Dragon City with Mo Qingyu, Hongdou, Xie Rou, and the guards to seek contact with the Five Cauldrons Sect.
• Zhang Rongfang forced innkeeper Ding Xiaocui to explain that the Five Cauldrons Sect’s disciples hid in underground Stone Chambers and that its leaders included the Five Venoms and a mysterious Sect Leader.
• Ding Xiaocui told Zhang Rongfang that the Heaven Lock Sect’s Envoy had been ambushed and that Great Dao Sect and Snow Rainbow Pavilion had attacked the Heaven Lock Sect headquarters.
• Ding Xiaocui named Treasure Harmony Building and its Master Chen as the greatest power in Black Dragon City, so Zhang Rongfang carried her there at great speed.
• Zhang Rongfang burst into Treasure Harmony Building, endured a blade strike and a gunshot without injury, and seized the white-clad old man who attacked him.
• Chen Zhaorong confronted Zhang Rongfang and offered to negotiate if he released Uncle Tan.

Zhang Rongfang enlisted Chen Zhaorong and Treasure Harmony Building to help him find the Five Cauldrons Sect and Ding Yu, while testing Dan Province’s poisons and raising his Life Force. Meanwhile, Ding Yu found the final Treasure Medicine in the Five Cauldrons Sect’s medicine vault and planned to send word to Lord Daozi.

• Zhang Rongfang pressured Chen Zhaorong into helping him locate the Five Cauldrons Sect and Ding Yu.
• Chen Zhaorong gathered thirty-five potent poisons, and Zhang Rongfang tested them, finding his recovery could overcome their effects.
• Zhang Rongfang spent thirteen Attribute Points to raise his Life Force from 239 to 252, and a new lump of flesh began forming beside his Blood Lotus.
• Zhang Rongfang considered how to guide others, especially Daoists who cultivated Civilian Skill, into creating Blood Lotuses.
• Ding Yu found the Blood Coagulation Grass and realized all three Treasure Medicines were in the Five Cauldrons Sect’s medicine vault.
• Ding Yu resolved to find a way to send the news to Lord Daozi so he could be rescued and take the medicines.

Ding Yu secretly left coded letters in the forest while accompanying Zhou Yuan outside, hoping someone would deliver them. In Black Dragon City, Zhang Rongfang discovered that the Civilian Skill’s rhythm shaped the Blood Lotus’s formation, and two Herb Gatherers found Ding Yu’s letters, leaving the elder brother to decide whether to risk delivering one.

• Ding Yu mapped the underground ventilation and later went outside with Zhou Yuan, where he secretly dropped letters in the grass.
• Zhang Rongfang added three attribute points to Vitality and realized the Civilian Skill’s rhythm influenced the Blood Lotus’s new vascular network.
• Zhang Rongfang reacted with shock after recalling the Civilian Skill’s possible effect on directing Life Force toward strengthening the body.
• Two Herb Gatherers found one of Ding Yu’s letters, and the elder brother hesitated to discard it because their mother needed treatment.