Chapter Summaries

Lin Taichu defeated the Falcon Organization remnants who attacked him, but spared the last survivor at the Huaxia Martial Arts Association president’s request. He declined the president’s offer to join the Association and left the possibility open for the future.

• Lin Taichu overwhelmed the three Old Men, killing two and beating the third as he tried to flee.
• The Huaxia Martial Arts Association president arrived and asked Lin Taichu to spare the remaining Old Man, explaining that the Falcon Organization had already been destroyed.
• Lin Taichu stopped attacking and warned the Old Man not to threaten him again.
• The president invited Lin Taichu to join the Huaxia Martial Arts Association, but Lin Taichu declined for now.
• The president accepted Lin Taichu’s decision and offered help if he needed it in the future.

Zhu Yeqing fought a mysterious masked opponent armed with a spear and a True Qi Gun, but was wounded while trying to escape. The Masked Man claimed the Nangong clan head was dead, and Zhu Yeqing charged at him in rage.

• The Masked Man attacked Zhu Yeqing with his spear and gun, but endured Zhu Yeqing's powerful counterattacks.
• Zhu Yeqing tried to flee, but the Masked Man pursued him and wounded his arm and chest with bullets.
• The Masked Man shot Zhu Yeqing in the thigh, stopping him from escaping.
• Zhu Yeqing identified himself as a member of the Nangong Family, and the Masked Man claimed its clan head had died and the family was powerless.
• Zhu Yeqing demanded to know if the claim was true, then roared and charged at the Masked Man.

Zhu Yeqing survived the Masked Man’s attack but was left badly injured and poisoned, while Lin Taichu discovered that the president of the Martial Arts Association was behind the attempt. After helping Zhu Yeqing recover, Lin Taichu began preparing to deal with the president.

• Zhu Yeqing killed the Masked Man after the assassin poisoned him, then collapsed as the poison worsened his injuries.
• A gentle breeze eased Zhu Yeqing’s wounds, and he later regained some strength by circulating his true energy.
• Lin Taichu told Zhu Yeqing that the president, an elder of the Nangong Family, had targeted them while coveting the family-head position.
• Lin Taichu treated Zhu Yeqing over several days until the poison was purged and his injuries were mostly healed.
• Lin Taichu told Zhu Yeqing to focus on cultivating while he made his own arrangements against the president.

Lin Taichu and Zhu Yeqing attacked the President at his residence, but his lightning palm force kept them from gaining the upper hand. After a prolonged fight, Lin Taichu unleashed a stronger, golden-lit flame technique, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Zhu Yeqing trained under Lin Taichu and reached a new realm while Lin Taichu secretly investigated the President.
• Lin Taichu led Zhu Yeqing through the President's unlocked back gate and into his training chamber.
• Lin Taichu and Zhu Yeqing attacked the President together, but he countered them with the Nangong Family's lightning palm force and seriously injured them.
• Lin Taichu and Zhu Yeqing's injuries healed rapidly, and the three resumed their fierce battle without a clear victor.
• Lin Taichu's inner power surged, and golden light appeared within the flames of his palms.

Lin Taichu and Zhu Yeqing killed the President of the Martial Arts Association and took jade raw stones from his body, but were discovered while trying to escape. Surrounded and wounded, they fought the pursuing Martial Arts Association members, and Zhu Yeqing unleashed his ultimate skill as the battle reached a desperate point.

• Lin Taichu struck the President with Golden Flames palm force, and Zhu Yeqing pierced his chest before Lin Taichu finished him with a kick to the head.
• Lin Taichu found jade raw stones near the President's corpse, and he and Zhu Yeqing hid when Martial Arts Association members began searching the residence.
• Lin Taichu distracted a guard by throwing a stone through a window, allowing him and Zhu Yeqing to escape toward the rear gate.
• Lin Taichu and Zhu Yeqing found the rear gate surrounded and fought their way into the Martial Arts Association members, but the reinforcements gradually overwhelmed them.
• Zhu Yeqing unleashed his ultimate skill, Green Smoke Dragon Transformation, against the Martial Arts Association crowd.

Lin Taichu escaped the Martial Arts Association with Zhu Yeqing and entered a city controlled by a mysterious company president, whom he planned to investigate. Before he could reach the president, he witnessed a staged rescue involving Wang Weiwen, a powerful tycoon, and learned the woman’s name was Liu Xiaoya.

• Lin Taichu and Zhu Yeqing used their ultimate skills to break through the Martial Arts Association’s encirclement and fled until dawn.
• Lin Taichu stayed in the city while Zhu Yeqing separated from him, and he learned that its residents worked for and feared a mysterious company president.
• Lin Taichu incapacitated several women who tried to grab him and continued toward a luxurious hotel.
• A well-dressed man helped Liu Xiaoya after she pretended to suffer a rib injury, then faced threats from three disheveled men claiming she was their wife.
• Wang Weiwen arrived, praised the well-dressed man, and identified the woman as Liu Xiaoya.

Lin Taichu investigated the city's hidden power structure and recruited Li Qiang to infiltrate the Wang Family and uncover Wang Weiwen's connection to the mysterious president. Li Qiang established himself inside the Wang Family, where he discovered that Wang Chongyang—not Wang Weiwen—held the family's real power.

• Wang Weiwen pressured Li Qiang over his pursuit of Liu Xiaoya and whispered a task for him to perform.
• Lin Taichu investigated the city's factions and learned that gaining control of the Wang Family and Liu Family might bring him closer to the mysterious president.
• Lin Taichu recruited Li Qiang to infiltrate the Wang Family and gave him a bracelet that warned of danger.
• The bracelet warned Li Qiang of an armed assailant, allowing him to dodge a shot and trust Lin Taichu.
• Li Qiang joined Lin Taichu and infiltrated the Wang Family, where he learned that Wang Chongyang secretly controlled it.

Lin Taichu killed Wang Chongyang at the Wang Family’s birthday banquet and convinced Wang Weiwen to cooperate with him. Wang Weiwen led him to a hidden passage to the Secret Vault, where he kept his assets.

• Lin Taichu disguised himself as a waiter at Wang Chongyang’s birthday banquet and followed him into a dressing room.
• Lin Taichu killed Wang Chongyang after learning he would not reveal the Wang Family’s connection to the mysterious President.
• Lin Taichu went to Wang Weiwen’s lounge and told him he had killed Wang Chongyang, claiming it would protect the Wang Family.
• Wang Weiwen agreed to cooperate with Lin Taichu in exchange for the Wang Family’s safety.
• Wang Weiwen led Lin Taichu to a hidden passage to the Secret Vault and said his assets were stored there while his younger brother managed the company.

Lin Taichu questioned Wang Weiwen about Wang Chongyang and President, then accompanied him into the Wang Family's treasure vault to inspect its artifacts. Wang Weiwen explained the artifacts and their rules, while Lin Taichu tested a Storage Bag and found it useful.

• Wang Weiwen explained that he held only five percent of the Wang Group and planned to lure Wang Chongyang abroad and make him disappear.
• Lin Taichu asked about President, and Wang Weiwen revealed that President had once guided him in martial arts.
• Lin Taichu warned Wang Weiwen that President might kill him to protect their secret, and Wang Weiwen agreed not to reveal their connection.
• Wang Weiwen took Lin Taichu into the treasure vault's secret chamber and explained that he could choose only one Dharma Artifact at a time.
• Wang Weiwen showed Lin Taichu several artifacts, including the Spirit Devouring Ring and a Storage Bag.
• Lin Taichu tested the Storage Bag by placing his collected herbs inside and found that it had ample space and no weight limit.

Lin Taichu learned about Wang Weiwen's rare formation disks and storage treasures, then tested a stone stele and entered the space inside a Storage Artifact. He found a thumb-sized jade bottle and glimpsed a vast desert with an ancient pine before returning to reality.

• Wang Weiwen explained that his group could make Storage Artifacts and Space Rings but relied on rare formation disks because they lacked formation expertise.
• Wang Weiwen showed Lin Taichu a stone stele, and its Formation vanished in a flash of light when Lin touched it.
• Wang Weiwen explained that the stele revealed a Storage Bag's virtual space and that the bag could preserve food, then showed Lin Taichu immortal peaches and described their benefits and price.
• Lin Taichu pressed his hand to another stele and saw a wooden box containing a Jade Talisman and a small silver-white jade bottle inside a blurry space.
• Lin Taichu tried to communicate with the space and found himself in a vast desert beside a towering ancient pine before quickly returning to reality.

Lin Taichu mastered the Storage Artifact with the Jade Talisman and gathered cultivation resources from Wang Weiwen’s treasure pavilion. He then found an old scroll titled Southern City Secrets in Wang Weiwen’s Scripture Pavilion and suspected it was connected to the President.

• Lin Taichu found a Jade Talisman hidden inside the ancient pine and used it to enter the Storage Artifact’s inner space, where he absorbed spiritual energy from a sphere of light.
• Lin Taichu returned to the real world and confirmed to Wang Weiwen that he had mastered the Storage Artifact.
• Lin Taichu asked Wang Weiwen to let him search the treasure pavilion, and he collected several precious items, including a blue gemstone.
• Lin Taichu entered Wang Weiwen’s Scripture Pavilion, found the dusty scroll titled Southern City Secrets, and unrolled it after suspecting it was connected to the President.

Lin Taichu learned that the President used the Illusory Heart Mirror to control South City’s leaders and sought Wang Weiwen’s support against him. Wang Weiwen agreed to join Lin Taichu, while the President watched Lin Taichu and prepared a trap.

• Lin Taichu discovered records describing the President’s hidden identity and the Illusory Heart Mirror’s power to manipulate hearts and memories.
• Lin Taichu told Wang Weiwen about the clues, and Wang Weiwen warned him that challenging the President would be dangerous.
• Lin Taichu returned to his residence to study the records as the President watched him from the shadows with the Illusory Heart Mirror and laid a trap.
• Lin Taichu privately explained the President’s threat to Wang Weiwen and urged the Wang Family to help oppose him.
• Wang Weiwen agreed to join Lin Taichu and fight the President.

Lin Taichu persuaded Chen Feng to have the Chen Family join the Wang Family’s alliance against the President. Unbeknownst to them, the President had learned of their plans and intended to use the upcoming celebration to surprise them.

• Lin Taichu and Wang Weiwen agreed to recruit South City’s forces and gather intelligence on the President and the Illusory Heart Mirror.
• Lin Taichu visited Chen Feng and presented evidence of the President’s threat along with an action plan.
• Chen Feng agreed to join the alliance and said he would send someone to discuss the operation in three days.
• The President revealed that his intelligence network had exposed the alliance’s plans and decided to play along with their move during the celebration.

The President lured Chen Feng, Lin Taichu, and Wang Weiwen’s forces into an attack at his residence, where the Illusory Heart Mirror disrupted the assault. Lin Taichu resisted the President’s attack with a glowing bracelet and countered with a hidden weapon, leaving their battle underway.

• The President ordered preparations after deciding the Illusory Heart Mirror would be his greatest trump card, while a black-clothed man spied on Chen Feng, Lin Taichu, and Wang Weiwen planning their operation.
• Chen Feng rallied the assembled operatives, and the President then announced that the celebration would be held at his residence.
• Chen Feng, Lin Taichu, and Wang Weiwen chose to proceed with their operation despite suspecting the President had set a trap.
• Black-clothed Men stormed the celebration, and the President activated the Illusory Heart Mirror, which muddled the attackers and the three leaders until Lin Taichu rallied them.
• The President attacked Lin Taichu, whose bracelet dissipated the President’s palm force; Lin Taichu then fired a silver weapon that curved toward the President’s back.

Lin Taichu defeated the President after pretending to be affected by the Illusory Heart Mirror, but the President’s hidden attack left Lin injured and South City threatened by incoming planes. Chen Hao’s forces arrived and saved Lin, who left as they prepared to deal with the President.

• Lin Taichu wounded the President with his wire blade and revealed that he had seen through the Illusory Heart Mirror’s influence.
• The President unleashed a powerful aura and summoned massive trees to block Lin Taichu as planes approached South City.
• The President vanished, and the adjutant attacked Lin Taichu, beating him down as armored Soldiers arrived in the planes.
• Chen Hao’s leader told Lin Taichu that Mr. Chen had sent them to help, and Lin realized Chen Hao had intervened.
• Lin Taichu thanked the adjutant and left while Chen Hao’s forces prepared to deal with the President.

Lin Taichu accepted Chen Hao’s help on the condition that South City’s people would be protected, then returned to lead the battle against the President’s forces. The President entered the fight and charged Lin Taichu, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Lin Taichu wounded the adjutant with his metal wire and escaped the residence while soldiers secured the area.
• Lin Taichu confronted Chen Hao, who said he had sent troops to protect South City and offered help against the President.
• With soldiers approaching, Lin Taichu agreed to cooperate with Chen Hao after securing his promise to protect South City’s people.
• Lin Taichu returned to the residence and joined Chen Feng and Wang Weiwen in a final assault that pushed back the President’s subordinates.
• The President appeared and charged Lin Taichu, who dodged to the President’s left.

Lin Taichu and the Chen and Wang families battled President, but his strength kept them from defeating him. Chen Feng intervened and severely injured President, leaving the fight at a turning point.

• Lin Taichu used his glowing bracelet to neutralize President’s palm force, then sent a silver ring after him and forced him to evade.
• The Chen Family and Wang Family joined Lin Taichu’s attack, but President fought them off and gradually wore Lin Taichu down.
• Chen Feng threw a dagger at President, narrowly missing his neck and drawing his attention.
• President lunged at Chen Feng, but Chen Feng seized his wrist, cut his neck, dislocated and broke his arm, and struck him hard enough to break his ribs and injure his organs.

Chen Feng and his allies cornered the President, but he trapped them with Myriad Phenomena Return to Origin and fought back. After Chen Hao wounded him and Chen Feng killed his ambushing men, Chen Hao stepped in to face the President.

• The President swallowed a pill, recovered his strength, and tried to flee while his men held Lin Taichu and Chen Hao back.
• Chen Feng pursued the President and cut his earlobe, but the President escaped with Ghost Shadow Maze before stopping to activate Myriad Phenomena Return to Origin.
• The President trapped Chen Feng, Lin Taichu, Chen Hao, and Wang Siyan in a Rune-sealed area, then ambushed Chen Hao with a dagger.
• Chen Hao countered with a punch that drove the President back and made him spit blood.
• Black-clothed Men attacked, and Chen Feng summoned hundreds of short swords that killed them.
• The President charged at Chen Feng, but Chen Hao stopped him and restored his broken iron rod into a long iron staff.

Chen Hao fought the President, countering his concealment and secret techniques before damaging his dantian. The President’s strength collapsed, and he fled beyond Chen Hao’s reach.

• Chen Hao struck the President with an iron rod, then wounded his neck as the President tried to escape through a second-floor window.
• The President used a spiritual talisman to conceal his energy and attack Chen Hao, but Chen Hao blocked his strike and pierced the President’s left shoulder with his short sword.
• The enraged President unleashed the Blood Fiend Curse, and Chen Hao destroyed the blood serpents but suffered severe burns to his arm.
• The President attacked with his steel whip and surrounded Chen Hao with flames, but Chen Hao stabbed his abdomen and disrupted his meridians.
• With his strength diminished after his dantian was damaged, the President fled beyond Chen Hao’s attack range.

Chen Hao and Lin Taichu faced the President after he used the Life and Death Samsara Seal to boost his power. The President attacked them, and the chapter ended with Chen Hao challenging his confidence in the secret technique.

• Chen Hao deflected the President’s spiritual-energy weapons with flying swords and stored them for later study.
• Lin Taichu finished dealing with the President’s men and joined Chen Hao, but the President ambushed them and sent them flying.
• The President revealed himself in his true energy eruption state and explained that he had used the Life and Death Samsara Seal to increase his power.
• Chen Hao and Lin Taichu recognized the technique as forbidden and learned that it cost the user at least a hundred years.
• The President attacked Chen Hao, who dodged, then threatened both men; Chen Hao questioned whether the President could win with his temporary boost.