Chapter Summaries

Lin Taichu and Zhao Feng considered how to reach Feng Tie in the Underground City, but Feng Tie failed to arrive as promised. Su Yao visited the Trading Holy Land, where she asked about Lin Taichu’s dealings with Feng Tie and inspected the Dragon Blood Stone.

• Lin Taichu explained that he remembered Zhou Jin’s route through the Underground City’s changing Restrictions but could not guarantee it would lead safely to the two-hundred-sixtieth floor.
• Zhao Feng suggested asking Su Yao to guide them to Feng Tie, but Lin Taichu said they had no reason to persuade her to help.
• On the sixth day, Zhao Huai said Feng Tie was not coming, while Lin Taichu insisted Feng Tie would return for the Meteorite Iron.
• Su Yao arrived in Luofeng City with six Qingyang Sect disciples and said she had come to buy things at the Trading Holy Land.
• Su Yao asked Lin Taichu whether he had gone to find Feng Tie, then toured the Trading Holy Land and examined its Dragon Blood Stone.

Lin Taichu advised Zhao Huai to accept the Qingyang Sect’s plan to establish a station in Luofeng City under strict rules. He then asked Su Yao to take him to the Dragon King Underground City to find Feng Tie, but she questioned what she would gain from helping him.

• Su Yao told Zhao Huai that the Qingyang Sect wanted to station disciples in Luofeng City to buy goods from the Underground City, and Zhao Huai said he would consider it.
• Lin Taichu warned Zhao Huai that the Qingyang Sect might intercept traders outside the city if refused, and advised him to agree while imposing rules and waiting two days to respond.
• Lin Taichu told Zhao Huai he planned to return to the Dragon King Underground City for Feng Tie, then waited for Su Yao at the city gate the next morning.
• Lin Taichu asked Su Yao to guide him underground and showed her a map with the route to the 260th floor, explaining that he had memorized Zhou Jin’s path.
• Lin Taichu argued that Su Yao’s help could be part of the Qingyang Sect’s relationship with Luofeng City, but Su Yao replied that the sect would establish its station regardless.

Lin Taichu persuaded Su Yao to take him into the Dragon King Underground City so he could find Feng Tie. They found Feng Tie below the hundredth floor, where he said his blacksmith shop had been destroyed and his unfinished sword stolen.

• Lin Taichu told Su Yao he could make Qingyang Sect's stay in Luofeng City difficult unless she took him to the Underground City, and she agreed.
• Lin Taichu told Zhao Feng to remain in the city and watch over the Trading Holy Land while he went with Su Yao to handle Feng Tie's matter.
• Lin Taichu and Su Yao traveled to the Underground City and descended through its increasingly dangerous passages.
• At the hundredth floor, Su Yao explained that the restrictions below changed daily and that anyone unable to read their runes might not return.
• Lin Taichu and Su Yao found Feng Tie below the hundredth floor, and he told them his blacksmith shop had been smashed and his unfinished sword stolen.

Lin Taichu recruited Feng Tie, whose blacksmith shop had been destroyed, to forge high-grade Dharma Artifacts for the Trading Holy Land in Luofeng City. As they left Dragon King Underground City, Feng Tie revealed that a masked fighter wearing a claw-shaped Dharma Artifact had wrecked his shop and defeated him with a single move.

• Feng Tie told Lin Taichu and Su Yao that his blacksmith shop and possessions had been destroyed, leaving him with only a hammer.
• Lin Taichu offered Feng Tie a blacksmith shop in Luofeng City and forty percent of the profits, and Feng Tie accepted after negotiating for fifty Spirit Stones as a deposit.
• On the way upward, Feng Tie identified a charred claw mark as evidence left by the masked person who had destroyed his shop.
• Feng Tie explained that the masked fighter had attacked him on the two-hundred-and-thirtieth floor, wore a claw-shaped Dharma Artifact, and had combat skill at least equal to his own.
• Lin Taichu, Su Yao, and Feng Tie left Dragon King Underground City and returned to Luofeng City, where Feng Tie looked around at the streets and stalls.

Lin Taichu arranged for Feng Tie to open a blacksmith shop in Luofeng City and agreed to let the Qingyang Sect establish a station under the city’s rules. The chapter ended as Zhao Huai presented Su Yao with Luofeng City passage Jade Tablets for Qingyang Sect disciples.

• Zhao Feng brought Feng Tie to the Zhao Family estate, where Lin Taichu arranged for him to stay and promised to set up a blacksmith shop for him.
• Lin Taichu told Zhao Huai that Feng Tie would receive forty percent of the profits from his Dharma Artifacts, then worried that the person who had robbed Feng Tie might threaten Luofeng City.
• Zhao Huai reported that the Trading Holy Land collected one hundred and ten thousand Spirit Stones in handling fees and showed Lin Taichu a mysterious leaf-shaped object found on the one hundred and eightieth floor of Dragon King Underground City.
• Su Yao came to discuss a Qingyang Sect station, and Lin Taichu and Zhao Huai agreed to the unchanged conditions requiring its disciples to obey Luofeng City’s rules and pay handling fees.
• Zhao Huai presented Su Yao with Luofeng City passage Jade Tablets for Qingyang Sect disciples.

Lin Taichu arranged the Dragon Blood Stone’s sale to northern merchant Liu Wenyuan, who also offered to buy an unknown leaf-shaped item. The chapter ended with Lin Taichu asking Liu Wenyuan why he believed the item was worth two hundred thousand Spirit Stones.

• Su Yao agreed that the Qingyang Sect would station five disciples in Luofeng City to buy goods from the Dragon King Underground City.
• Lin Taichu examined the unknown leaf-shaped item and decided to leave it in the storeroom until someone identified it.
• Liu Wenyuan offered six hundred thousand Spirit Stones for the Dragon Blood Stone, and Zhao Feng confirmed the full payment.
• After Lin Taichu had Zhao Feng wrap the Dragon Blood Stone, Liu Wenyuan asked to see the unknown item and offered another two hundred thousand Spirit Stones for it.
• Lin Taichu questioned why Liu Wenyuan knew the unknown item’s value, and Liu Wenyuan had not yet answered.

Lin Taichu investigated Liu Wenyuan’s offer for the Dragon Blood Stone and discovered that the leaf-shaped object was a rare Dragon Scale Leaf worth far more than Liu had offered. Suspecting Liu represented a powerful northern clan preparing for a breakthrough, Lin sent Zhao Feng to investigate him, and Zhao Feng returned with the first details.

• Lin Taichu refused to sell the leaf-shaped object to Liu Wenyuan until he had investigated it, and Liu left his inn address.
• Lin Taichu showed the object to Feng Tie, who identified it as a genuine Dragon Scale Leaf taken from a dragon less than a year earlier.
• Feng Tie explained that the Dragon Scale Leaf could be worth at least a million Spirit Stones, prompting Lin Taichu to reject Liu Wenyuan’s bargain offer.
• Zhou Jin suspected Liu Wenyuan came on behalf of a powerful northern clan whose member was nearing a breakthrough, so Lin Taichu ordered Zhao Feng to investigate him.
• Zhao Feng reported that Liu Wenyuan had arrived the previous day, stayed at the inn, and visited the Trading Holy Land that morning.

Lin Taichu investigated Liu Wenyuan’s suspicious dealings and grew concerned that his people had infiltrated the Trading Holy Land. He also questioned Feng Tie about the Dharma Artifacts stolen from his blacksmith shop, learning that Feng Tie had kept more than twenty masterpieces there.

• Lin Taichu learned that Liu Wenyuan had met two black-robed visitors who headed north toward Dragon King Underground City, then ordered Zhao Feng to refuse the Dragon Scale Leaf and raise the Dragon Blood Stone’s price to one million Spirit Stones.
• Lin Taichu received Su Yao’s letter announcing that five Qingyang Sect disciples would arrive the next day to staff the sect’s new station in Luofeng City.
• After Liu Wenyuan remained in his room for a day, Lin Taichu learned that two of his attendants had left for the north and ordered Zhao Feng to investigate three recently hired workers for possible ties to Liu Wenyuan.
• Lin Taichu suspected that the Dharma Artifacts stolen from Feng Tie’s blacksmith shop were being sold secretly and asked Feng Tie how many he had forged.
• Feng Tie said he had forged over a hundred Dharma Artifacts and had kept more than twenty masterpieces on the blacksmith shop’s shelves.

Lin Taichu confronted Liu Wenyuan over stolen Dharma Artifacts and exposed his bribery and spying, then sold him the Dragon Blood Stone for one million Spirit Stones while refusing to sell the Dragon Scale Leaf. Su Yao later told Lin Taichu that Liu belonged to the wealthy Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce, which traded with Rogue Cultivators and small factions rather than major sects.

• Lin Taichu stopped Feng Tie from confronting Liu Wenyuan and explained that doing so could bring trouble to Luofeng City.
• Zhao Feng reported that a Trading Holy Land assistant had been bribed to copy daily records, and Lin Taichu ordered him to continue with altered information so they could investigate the buyer.
• Liu Wenyuan arrived to buy the Dragon Blood Stone, and Lin Taichu raised its price to one million Spirit Stones while refusing to sell the Dragon Scale Leaf.
• Lin Taichu accused Liu Wenyuan of planting spies and bribing the assistant, and Liu agreed to pay one million for the Dragon Blood Stone.
• Liu Wenyuan offered to cooperate with Lin Taichu on trade between Luofeng City and the north, then left with the Dragon Blood Stone.
• Su Yao told Lin Taichu that Liu Wenyuan belonged to the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce, a wealthy northern group that traded with Rogue Cultivators and small factions.

Lin Taichu and Feng Tie traced Feng Tie’s stolen Dharma Artifacts to the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce and prepared to investigate its northern stronghold. By dawn, the stronghold had been annihilated, and Lin Taichu realized Zhou Jin had secretly destroyed it.

• Lin Taichu told Feng Tie that the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce was selling his stolen Dharma Artifacts and connected Liu Wenyuan to the organization.
• Feng Tie vowed to destroy the Chamber’s stronghold once they confirmed its control of the artifacts, while Lin Taichu urged them to gather final proof.
• Lin Taichu and Feng Tie noticed Zhou Jin had disappeared, then sent Zhao Feng and reliable men north to investigate the Chamber’s sales posts, personnel, and warehouses.
• A guard reported that the Chamber’s northern stronghold had been destroyed overnight, its Cultivators killed, and its warehouses emptied without a trace.
• Lin Taichu concluded that Zhou Jin had carried out the attack, and Zhao Huai recognized the value of having him protect Luofeng City.

After destroying the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce, Lin Taichu and Feng Tie lured Liu Wenyuan out to Desolate Valley to settle their grudge. Liu Wenyuan revealed ten powerful mercenaries as his real backup, and the fight began with Lin Taichu still injured.

• Feng Tie and Lin Taichu decided to eliminate Liu Wenyuan and draw him out of Luofeng City with a false offer to trade the Dragon Scale Leaf.
• Liu Wenyuan agreed to meet them in Desolate Valley, claiming he would come alone, but Lin Taichu suspected he had hidden support.
• Lin Taichu and Feng Tie arrived at Desolate Valley and found Liu Wenyuan waiting for them.
• Ten mercenaries emerged from hiding, carrying the claw-shaped Dharma Artifacts that had been used to raid Feng Tie's blacksmith shop.
• Liu Wenyuan ordered the mercenaries to kill Lin Taichu and Feng Tie, and the attackers charged from all sides.
• Feng Tie struck the foremost mercenary with Hammer while Lin Taichu drew his saber and blocked another attacker, nearly losing his grip.

Zhou Jin arrived at Desolate Valley and defeated Liu Wenyuan’s mercenaries, then exposed the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce’s role in attacking Luofeng City. He recovered Feng Tie’s stolen belongings and left Liu Wenyuan dead after questioning him.

• Zhou Jin appeared just as two mercenaries were about to stab Feng Tie and shattered their weapons with his short rod.
• Zhou Jin crippled all ten mercenaries, then stopped Liu Wenyuan from escaping with an Escape Talisman.
• Zhou Jin forced Liu Wenyuan to reveal that the masked president of the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce had sent him to seize Dragon Blood Stone and Dragon Scale Leaf.
• Feng Tie killed Liu Wenyuan after Zhou Jin finished questioning him.
• Zhou Jin returned Feng Tie’s Dharma Artifacts and materials, explaining that he had taken them from the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce headquarters.
• Zhou Jin explained that his combat experience let him defeat the mercenaries despite having his cultivation suppressed, while Zhao Feng arrived and stared at the scene in shock.

After Zhou Jin killed Liu Wenyuan and the mercenaries, Lin Taichu warned that the masked president of the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce remained a threat, though Luofeng City would be safe for now. The next day, Feng Tie began setting up his blacksmith shop, and Lin Taichu went to meet Su Yao after she requested to see him.

• Lin Taichu returned to the Zhao Family estate with Zhou Jin and Feng Tie after Zhou Jin killed Liu Wenyuan and ten mercenaries in the Desolate Valley.
• Lin Taichu told Zhao Huai that the masked president of the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce was still alive, while Feng Tie agreed to open a blacksmith shop in Luofeng City.
• Zhao Huai offered Feng Tie materials from the Trading Holy Land's storehouse, and Lin Taichu arranged an empty shop beside it for his forge.
• The next morning, Lin Taichu and Feng Tie prepared the shop, and Zhao Feng went to ask Su Yao for an Earth Fire furnace from Qingyang Sect.
• Zhao Feng returned with news that Qingyang Sect would provide the furnace for free and that Su Yao wanted to discuss something with Lin Taichu.
• Lin Taichu went to Qingyang Sect's Luofeng City office to meet Su Yao.

Lin Taichu learned that the surviving president of the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce might be hiding in Dragon King Underground City and could target Zhou Jin. He asked Zhou Jin to return there and investigate, but Zhou Jin refused.

• Su Yao told Lin Taichu that investigators had traced the destruction of the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce to Zhou Jin and warned that its president might seek revenge.
• Su Yao proposed that Qingyang Sect sell Feng Tie’s Dharma Artifacts, and Lin Taichu returned to the Zhao Family estate to share the intelligence with Feng Tie and Zhao Huai.
• Zhou Jin revealed that the president had left the chamber’s headquarters three days before its destruction and might have gone to Dragon King Underground City to recruit people.
• Lin Taichu urged Zhou Jin to return to Dragon King Underground City and look for the president, but Zhou Jin refused to go back.

Zhou Jin agreed to return to Dragon King Underground City to search for the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce president, in exchange for double pay. He learned the president had entered five days earlier and gone to the city’s seventh level, where Zhou Jin suspected he had come to find someone.

• Zhou Jin agreed to Lin Taichu’s request to go to Dragon King Underground City after negotiating for double pay, and left Luofeng City on his sword.
• Lin Taichu ordered a nighttime curfew, additional guards at the city gates, and records of all people and shipments entering or leaving.
• Zhou Jin reached Dragon King Underground City, retrieved his identity token, and entered the city, where its residents recognized him.
• At Sister Liu’s tavern, Zhou Jin asked about the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce president, and Sister Liu initially warned him not to involve the underground city in the matter.
• Sister Liu revealed that the president had entered through the northern entrance five days earlier, wearing a black cloak and silver mask, and gone straight to the seventh level.

Zhou Jin tracked the president of the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce to the Black Tiger Gang’s territory in Dragon King Underground City, but realized he could not confront Tie Hu and his men alone. He returned to Luofeng City to ask Lin Taichu for help, leaving them to plan how to reach the president.

• Zhou Jin learned that the president of the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce had hired Tie Hu’s Black Tiger Gang to recruit more than thirty Mercenaries and was staying on their territory.
• Zhou Jin asked Sister Liu about Tie Hu and learned that Tie Hu would betray the president for a larger payment.
• Unable to afford a bribe or fight the Black Tiger Gang alone, Zhou Jin left Dragon King Underground City to seek Lin Taichu’s help.
• Zhou Jin told Lin Taichu where the president was and explained that Tie Hu’s forces made a direct attack impossible.

Lin Taichu devised a plan to draw the president of the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce out of Dragon King Underground City so Zhou Jin could kill him. Zhou Jin publicly challenged the president, whose reaction left the plan on the verge of a confrontation.

• Lin Taichu told Zhou Jin to pose as bait by announcing he would go alone to the seventh level, and gave him a Storage Bag containing a hundred thousand Spirit Stones in case he needed to buy off Tie Hu.
• Feng Tie questioned whether the plan would work, and Lin Taichu warned that failure could send the president and more than thirty mercenaries toward Luofeng City.
• Zhou Jin returned to Dragon King Underground City and asked Sister Liu to spread word that he would personally behead the president of the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce.
• Sister Liu had the announcement spread through the underground city, and the news reached the Black Tiger Gang's stronghold on the seventh level.
• The president of the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce heard Zhou Jin's challenge and declared that Zhou Jin had come seeking death, while Tie Hu showed wariness about facing him.

The Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce president hired Tie Hu and the Black Tiger Gang to ambush Zhou Jin, who escaped their attack and lured them out of Dragon King Underground City. Lin Taichu and Feng Tie were waiting outside as the pursuers emerged, setting the stage for a confrontation.

• The Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce president offered Tie Hu three million Spirit Stones to kill Zhou Jin, and Tie Hu accepted with all thirty-four Black Tiger Gang Mercenaries.
• Zhou Jin searched the underground city for the president while acting as bait, then returned to a secluded stone house to rest.
• At midnight, Tie Hu and the thirty-four Mercenaries ambushed Zhou Jin alongside the president, but Zhou Jin broke through and fled toward the exit.
• Zhou Jin escaped Dragon King Underground City and met Lin Taichu and Feng Tie, who had waited outside to help him.
• Tie Hu and the Mercenaries pursued Zhou Jin out of the cave, with the president following behind.

Zhou Jin, Feng Tie, and Lin Taichu confronted the Black Tiger Gang and the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce president after the group pursued them onto the surface. Zhou Jin and Feng Tie overwhelmed their opponents, but the president launched poisoned hidden weapons at Zhou Jin from behind.

• Zhou Jin stood with Feng Tie and Lin Taichu, shattering Tie Hu and the Black Tiger Gang's confidence in their planned attack.
• The Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce president ordered the Black Tiger Gang to kill the three men, and Tie Hu led thirty-four mercenaries into battle.
• Feng Tie used his giant hammer to break the mercenaries' weapons and injure those who attacked him.
• Zhou Jin regained his full strength outside the Underground City and crushed Tie Hu in their duel.
• Lin Taichu used his defensive artifacts and Spirit Sword to block mercenaries from escaping or launching sneak attacks.
• The president threw toxin-coated hidden weapons at Zhou Jin's back as his force began to collapse.

Zhou Jin, Feng Tie, and Lin Taichu defeated the Tianyuan Chamber of Commerce’s forces, but its president escaped into the mountains. Tie Hu revealed that the president was gathering Rogue Cultivators to seize the Underground City’s resources and later attack Luofeng City.

• The president attacked Lin Taichu, but Lin Taichu’s defensive dharma artifact blocked his strike until Zhou Jin forced him back.
• The president used Escape Talismans and black smoke to flee, while Feng Tie cleared the smoke and Zhou Jin pursued him.
• Five hidden death warriors intercepted Zhou Jin; he killed them, but the president escaped into the mountain forest.
• Feng Tie subdued the badly injured Tie Hu, and the remaining mercenaries were killed or wounded.
• Lin Taichu questioned Tie Hu, who disclosed the president’s plan to gather Rogue Cultivators, seize the Underground City’s resources, and attack Luofeng City.