Chapter Summaries

Chen Yi reunited with Dachun and his niece Shen Siqin, sheltered them, and helped her begin martial arts training. As his health declined but his cultivation advanced, he finally decided to go to White Cloud County and demand answers about Shen Qingshan’s death.

• Chen Yi learned that Shen Qingshan had been framed for murder and killed while fleeing, while Chen Yun entrusted her daughter to Dachun before drawing away the pursuers.
• Chen Yi welcomed Dachun and Nannan into his martial arts school and resolved to investigate the County Yamen’s role in Shen Qingshan’s death.
• Chen Yi gained the Has Demonic Aura and Ginger is Still Old and Spicy Terms, replacing Serious Punch with the latter.
• After discovering that Nannan had a High-Grade Bone Structure, Chen Yi named her Shen Siqin and recommended her to the Clear Soup Sect.
• Chen Yi reached the fifth level of the Spirit Gathering Realm as his health worsened, then decided it was time to go to White Cloud County and demand an explanation.

Chen Yi entered White Cloud County under a false name and stormed the county yamen to question the County Magistrate about two old cases. After breaking both of the magistrate’s arms, he demanded the real reason Chen Yi and Shen Qingshan had been framed.

• Chen Yi replaced his traits to strengthen himself and secretly left Makou Town, intending not to return.
• Chen Yi entered White Cloud County, learned that Old Liu had killed the former Yuelai Inn proprietress’s daughter, and then went to the county yamen.
• Chen Yi fought through the yamen guards and defeated the chief constable with punches strengthened by Badminton Master and Serious Punch.
• Chen Yi seized the County Magistrate and demanded answers about his father’s framing of Chen Yi and Shen Qingshan.
• The County Magistrate admitted they had been framed and blamed someone else for the crimes, but Chen Yi insisted on the real motive and broke his other arm.

Chen Yi uncovered that Feng Yucheng and the County Magistrate had covered up demon murders and framed Shen Qingshan, while Feng used blood and demon aura to improve his cultivation. Feng killed Chen Yi and the constables, leaving Chen Yi determined to fight him again in the next life.

• The Thin County Magistrate confessed that he and others had framed Shen Qingshan to conceal demon murder cases, but Feng Yucheng arrived and killed him before he could reveal more.
• Feng Yucheng sealed the County Yamen and declared that everyone who had learned the truth had to die.
• Feng admitted that he had worked with the Demon Race to disguise their killings and receive Blood Demon Pills that helped him overcome his poor aptitude.
• Chen Yi realized Feng and the County Magistrate had framed Shen Qingshan to stop his investigation, and resolved to warn his Third Brother-in-law after the simulation.
• Feng used the formation to boost his power and killed Chen Yi and the constables, while Chen Yi challenged him to fight again in the next life.

After his second simulation, Chen Yi gained Spirit Gathering Fifth Level cultivation and a mission to leave the Black Stone Gang with Dachun. He fabricated a spy plot to turn the gang against itself while he looted its warehouse, but Shi Lao Si arrived as the fighting continued.

• Chen Yi reviewed his new cultivation, inherited skills, and guidance mission to take Dachun to White Cloud County.
• Chen Yi knocked a guard into a wall and claimed the man was a spy who had accomplices stealing from the warehouse.
• Chen Yi led Patrol Captain Wu and his squad to the warehouse, where they mistook workers moving books outside for thieves and attacked them.
• Chen Yi slipped into the warehouse and packed its valuables, pills, and cultivation methods into a chest.
• Shi Lao Si arrived and demanded to know why members of the gang were fighting, while Wu and the Warehouse Manager accused each other of treachery.

Chen Yi found a mask linked to the massacre of his village and fought his way through the Black Stone Gang toward the docks. He reached Dachun and prepared to take him away, while Shi San rallied the gang to block their escape.

• Shi Lao Si ordered his men to attack both groups, and Chen Yi found a white mask with a black flame in the warehouse.
• Shi Lao Si attacked Chen Yi, who defeated him and killed him after the gang members failed to identify the mask.
• Chen Yi slaughtered the Black Stone Gang members who came after him and fought his way to the docks.
• Chen Yi told Dachun they were going home, while Shi San ordered his gang to block the land and water routes.
• Chen Yi wiped the blood from his sword and declared that he would take Dachun with him despite whoever tried to stop him.

Chen Yi defeated the Black Stone Gang at the dock and questioned Shi San about a masked corpse tied to the Luoding Village massacre. He uncovered a strand of red hair as a clue, then chased Shi San when he tried to escape.

• Chen Yi killed the Black Stone Gang members who attacked him, and the gang fled as Shi San was left alone.
• Chen Yi turned the dock laborers against the gang, and they rushed to seize its headquarters and wealth.
• Chen Yi showed Shi San a mask, and Shi San revealed it had belonged to a dead masked man who had floated downstream with Chen Yi and Dachun.
• Shi San led Chen Yi to the burial site, where Chen Yi unearthed the corpse and found a lock of red hair among its remains.
• Shi San tried to escape while Chen Yi examined the corpse, but Chen Yi pursued him with a huge burning hand.

Chen Yi killed Shi San, escaped with Dachun, and returned toward White Cloud County after rumors made him seem like a renowned martial arts master. Near home, he encountered Xu Linglong and her bandits again.

• Chen Yi used Burning Cloud Hand to burn Shi San to death and destroy the Black Stone Gang.
• Chen Yi and Dachun traveled along the Qing River, and Chen Yi renamed Dachun Chen Xiaochun.
• At an inn in Qing River County, Chen Yi heard exaggerated stories about the Black Stone Gang’s destruction and realized the rumors concealed his identity.
• After resting, Chen Yi bought a carriage and traveled with Chen Xiaochun toward White Cloud County, where he detected traces of demonic aura.
• Near White Cloud County Town, Xu Linglong and her bandit lackeys stopped Chen Yi’s carriage, and he asked why she had appeared again.

Chen Yi subdued Xu Linglong’s bandits, learned that a former Chixin Sect disciple might offer a lead in the Village Massacre Case, and reached White Cloud County with Dachun. He left Dachun at Yuelai Inn and headed to his Third Sister’s home to complete the guidance mission.

• Chen Yi used his fiery hand to frighten Xu Linglong and her bandits into surrendering, then questioned a red-haired lackey about his former Chixin Sect training.
• The lackey explained that the Heart Fire Technique had destroyed his dantian and that a locust plague and stolen relief grain had left him with no choice but to become a bandit.
• Chen Yi noted the Chixin Sect as a possible lead in the Village Massacre Case and warned Xu Linglong that her stronghold’s Second Leader might be a traitor.
• Chen Yi arrived in White Cloud County, bought candied hawthorns for Dachun, and booked a room for him at Yuelai Inn.
• Chen Yi tested whether Mei Sanniang remembered their simulated romance, found that she did not, and set off for his Third Sister’s home to complete the guidance mission.

Chen Yi reunited with his Third Sister, Chen Yun, and explained his survival with a fabricated story. After claiming his guidance mission reward, he drew the purple Epic Term Treasure-Snatching Extraordinary Nose and began planning how to find the Myriad Souls Banner and nourish it with demon souls.

• Chen Yun prayed for Chen Yi's survival, and Chen Yi surprised her by arriving at her home alive.
• Chen Yi reunited with Chen Yun and met his niece, Nannan, promising to buy her candy.
• Chen Yi told Chen Yun that he and Dachun had survived with help from a kind old Martial Artist and a wealthy merchant's reward.
• Chen Yi completed his guidance mission and received ten Spirit Guiding Pills.
• Chen Yi drew the purple Epic Term Treasure-Snatching Extraordinary Nose, which could detect supreme treasures nearby.
• Chen Yi considered seeking the Myriad Souls Banner and planned to feed it demon souls rather than slaughter innocent people.

Chen Yi reunited with Chen Yun and Shen Qingshan, then persuaded Shen Qingshan to stop investigating suspicious murder cases by promising to expose White Cloud County’s demon lairs to an incoming commandery inspection. Before bed, Chen Yi prepared to begin his third simulation, determined to confront Feng Yucheng.

• Chen Yun carefully prepared a room for Chen Yi and urged him to stay with her rather than buy his own house.
• Shen Qingshan returned, joyfully reunited with Chen Yi, and offered him four Cultivation Methods and a possible path into the Monster Slaying Division.
• Chen Yi warned Shen Qingshan that investigating the suspicious murder cases could endanger his family, and claimed his absent master had advised him to stop.
• Chen Yi promised to reveal the locations of Demon Race lairs to the commandery inspector in half a year, giving Shen Qingshan hope that the wrongly accused could be cleared.
• Back in his room, Chen Yi prepared for his third simulation and vowed to settle things with Feng Yucheng.

Chen Yi searched Hongtong County for the Myriad Souls Banner but concluded it had not arrived yet, then returned to White Cloud County and mapped the Demon Race’s three lairs. After learning the commandery’s Monster Slaying Colonel was inspecting the county, he planned to send him the locations anonymously, and Shen Qingshan offered a suitable courier.

• Chen Yi rode to Hongtong County and searched for the Myriad Souls Banner, but found no trace of it and decided to wait until Old Liu obtained it in the seventeenth year.
• Chen Yi returned to White Cloud County and used demonic aura to locate and memorize three Demon Race lairs on White Cloud Ridge.
• Chen Yi learned that the Monster Slaying Colonel was inspecting the county and had refused visits from local gentry and powerful clans.
• Chen Yun scolded Chen Yi for disappearing, and Chen Yi claimed he had gone into seclusion to train.
• Chen Yi told Shen Qingshan about the three lairs and his plan to send an anonymous letter to the posthouse.
• Shen Qingshan said he had a more suitable candidate to deliver the letter.

Chen Yi’s intervention exposed White Cloud County’s wrongful executions and led Zhang Miao to reopen the cases, though Feng Yucheng escaped and the demons evaded capture. As the simulation entered its second year, Chen Yi received a golden entry that strengthened him against non-human races.

• A peasant woman accused White Cloud County officials of framing her husband for deaths caused by demons, and other townspeople joined her in seeking justice.
• Zhang Miao stopped County Magistrate Cao from silencing the woman, ordered the cases reopened, and sent his subordinates after Feng Yucheng when Chen Yi revealed his escape.
• The wrongful convictions were overturned and Cao was imprisoned, but Feng Yucheng escaped and the demon-slaying force found only traces of the demons before they fled.
• Shen Qingshan discussed the Chixin Sect with Chen Yi and offered to use the Shen family's connections to help him seek entry.
• Chen Yi saw an opportunity to repeat his intervention in reality and prepare to capture Feng Yucheng, then received the golden Toughest Father of Foreign Races entry in the simulation's second year.

Chen Yi joined the Chixin Sect to investigate the massacre at Luoding Village, but found no useful clues and grew wary of its Ancient Pagoda. After using his new Silent Step Entry to sneak inside, he triggered a formation and saw two figures appear.

• Chen Yi replaced Effort Will Be Rewarded with The Toughest Father of Foreign Races and joined the Chixin Sect as a gate patroller.
• Chen Yi spent a year at the sect, improved his cultivation, and noticed that his Spider Senses reacted whenever he passed the Ancient Pagoda.
• Chen Yi drew Silent Step and replaced Has Demonic Aura with it after learning the sect’s ancestor had left for a convention.
• Chen Yi sneaked into the empty seven-story pagoda and studied its unfamiliar formation patterns.
• The formation lit up and triggered Chen Yi’s Spider Senses, so he leaped outside and hid motionless on the eaves as two figures appeared.

During his patrol, Chen Yi overheard two Alien Race agents discussing their outposts and Demon Bridge Formations, then survived their attack and memorized the tower’s formation patterns. He continued cultivating at the Chixin Sect, reached the eighth level of Spirit Gathering over ten years, and looked forward to claiming the Myriad Souls Banner in two years.

• Chen Yi listened as two strangers in the tower revealed that they were from the Alien Race and used seven Demon Bridge Formations to connect their outposts.
• One stranger detected Chen Yi by scent and attacked him with Pain-Piercing Demonic Sound, but Chen Yi endured the injury and waited until they left.
• Chen Yi memorized the formation patterns in the tower before returning to the Chixin Sect to seek further clues.
• At age twenty-two, Chen Yi reached the sixth level of Spirit Gathering and exchanged patrol contribution points for Rocket Step after befriending Yin Rui.
• Over the next ten years, Chen Yi reached the eighth level of Spirit Gathering and planned to use the Myriad Souls Banner in two years to advance by killing demons.

Chen Yi discovered a Demon Tide attacking the Chixin Sect and used his powerful Entry to fight through the demons. As the sect’s defenses collapsed, he saw Yin Rui in danger and faced a choice between rescuing her, escaping, or looting resources.

• Chen Yi spotted demonic aura during patrol, but his team doubted him until boar demons attacked and a vast Demon Tide advanced on the Chixin Sect.
• Chen Yi defeated a boar demon with a single punch, then used his boosted Blood Qi and Rocket Step to force his way toward the sect.
• The Chixin Sect activated its Mountain Protection Array, but a colossal dragon-like creature shattered it and demons flooded the grounds.
• Chen Yi fought through the invading demons and prepared to escape, but saw Yin Rui battling a large group near the Library Pavilion.
• The simulation paused for Chen Yi to choose whether to save Yin Rui, flee, or loot the Chixin Sect.

Chen Yi rescued Yin Rui during Chixin Sect’s destruction and escaped with a chest of valuable Cultivation Methods. After upgrading his cultivation and learning new martial arts, he drew a trait that let him identify whether one target each day was good or bad.

• Chen Yi charged into the demon horde to help Yin Rui, who entrusted him with Chixin Sect’s Cultivation Methods and urged him to preserve them.
• Chen Yi fought past the demons and sect members trying to seize the books, while Yin Rui stayed behind to defend Chixin Sect.
• A giant-sword swordsman named Li Liushui confronted Azure Dragon, whose strike flattened Chixin Sect’s mountaintop and blasted Chen Yi hundreds of meters away.
• Chen Yi escaped with the chest and later found it contained fourteen mid-level and six high-level Cultivation Methods.
• Chen Yi memorized the methods, replaced his External and Internal Cultivation methods, and learned high-level martial arts while staying in a small town.
• At age thirty-three, Chen Yi drew the purple trait “The Only True Prophet on the Scene,” which let him identify one person each day as good or bad.

Chen Yi upgraded his cultivation techniques and followed the scent of a supreme treasure into the forest, where two experts seized him to help save a poisoned princess. He found the princess in a cave, but her identity remained unknown.

• Chen Yi replaced his traits and spent a year cultivating the Chixin Sect’s Heart Flame Mysterious Technique and Pure Yang Spirit Guiding Mysterious Technique.
• Chen Yi smelled a supreme treasure and tracked its scent from Dongchi Town into the nearby forest.
• Two armored men discussed how the princess had been poisoned with Love Flower Poison and needed yang energy to survive.
• The men grabbed Chen Yi and brought him to a cave, where he saw the beautiful, feverish princess.

Chen Yi saved Princess Baihua, Li Lingyue, from Love Flower Poison and learned she was fleeing a political marriage to Dashiguo. After she protected him from her guards, Chen Yi left and continued his journey to find Old Liu’s Myriad Souls Banner, where he witnessed a grave explode.

• Chen Yi cured Li Lingyue’s Love Flower Poison, and she told him she had fled her political marriage to the Dashiguo King.
• Li Lingyue protected Chen Yi from her guards and claimed they were in love, allowing him to leave alive.
• Chen Yi traveled to Hongtong County in search of the Myriad Souls Banner.
• Chen Yi found Old Liu mourning at his family’s grave, which suddenly exploded.

You stopped Old Liu from accepting the Myriad Souls Banner’s power, broke its vessel, and learned that the surviving Artifact Spirit needed a master to restore its strength. After bargaining over how to share power gained from souls, you agreed to take it along while hunting demons and evil spirits.

• The Myriad Souls Banner emerged from Old Liu’s father’s grave and tempted Old Liu with power, but you knocked him unconscious before he could accept.
• The Banner tried to seduce you, but your resistance to Alien Race seduction let you seize it and break its vessel with your punches.
• A dark-glowing ball emerged from the broken banner and explained that it was the Artifact Spirit of a weakened Immortal Artifact whose main body had been lost.
• The Artifact Spirit offered to help you grow stronger by refining souls, and you negotiated a fifty-fifty split of the soul power.
• You asked whether demon souls would work, then agreed to take the Artifact Spirit along as you hunted demons and evil spirits.

After acquiring the Myriad Souls Banner, you went to Hongtong County and rescued an infant from a Wolf Demon posing as the Mountain God. You collected your first Demon Soul, while the banner’s Artifact Spirit remained hidden in a shabby Soul-Summoning Banner.

• You placed the Myriad Souls Banner’s Artifact Spirit in a tattered Soul-Summoning Banner and warned it that it could not be exposed.
• You entered the Mountain God Temple in Laogou Village as the villagers offered an infant to their supposed god.
• You destroyed the statue, caught the infant, and confronted the figure that appeared in a cloud of holy mist.
• You revealed the Mountain God as a Wolf Demon and defeated it with your spear while protecting the infant.
• You returned the infant, warned the villagers against human sacrifice, and used the Myriad Souls Banner to collect your first Demon Soul.