Chapter Summaries

Qian Li fled to North Gate after Feng Fu and Feng Yuxiang exposed the Feng Family’s plot, but Feng Yuxiang killed two Disciples and badly wounded Zhao Hu and Leng Feng. As Qian Li prepared to sacrifice himself so the survivors could escape, Li Xiao listened from a nearby stone room.

• Qian Li reached North Gate and warned the Martial Arts Hall Disciples that the Yellow Robe Cult Master was Feng Family Ancestor Feng Fu, urging them to flee Willow City.
• Feng Fu and Feng Yuxiang caught up with Qian Li, and Feng Yuxiang’s punch killed two Disciples and gravely injured Zhao Hu and Leng Feng.
• Qian Li begged Feng Fu and Feng Yuxiang to spare his Disciples, then resolved to use his remaining strength in a final strike to help them escape.
• Li Xiao heard the confrontation from a stone room beside the City Gate Tower and realized that Feng Fu was the Yellow Robe Cult Master.

Li Xiao intervened in the Feng Family’s assault on Qian Li and his disciples, using a powerful arrow to stop Feng Yuxiang from killing them. He asked Feng Fu and Feng Yuxiang to spare the wounded, but Feng Fu offered only to enslave the disciples and insisted Qian Li remain behind.

• As Feng Yuxiang prepared to strike the wounded Qian Li, Zhao Hu, and the others, Li Xiao fired an arrow from the City Gate Tower that Feng Fu knocked aside.
• Li Xiao revealed himself and asked Feng Fu and Feng Yuxiang to let him take Qian Li and the wounded disciples away.
• Li Xiao explained that he owed Qian Li a teaching debt and Zhao Hu a personal debt, and proposed that both sides end their conflict.
• Feng Yuxiang rejected Li Xiao’s proposal, calling Qian Li a threat and the disciples potential future trouble.
• Feng Fu refused to release Qian Li and offered to spare the disciples only if they were stripped of their martial arts and made slaves of the Feng Family.

Li Xiao refused Feng Yuxiang’s offer to abandon Qian Li and unleashed his Wind Thunder Arrow Intent against the Feng Family. His arrow struck at Feng Yuxiang, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Li Xiao prepared to fight the Feng Family as Qian Li and Zhao Hu urged him to flee.
• Feng Yuxiang tried to recruit Li Xiao by offering the Feng Family’s resources and the Military Governor’s backing.
• Qian Li rejected Feng Yuxiang’s promises and urged Li Xiao to escape and avenge him later.
• Li Xiao dropped his feigned hesitation and drew his bow, revealing his Wind Thunder Arrow Intent.
• Feng Fu tried to suppress Li Xiao’s attack as Li Xiao fired a lightning-wreathed arrow at Feng Yuxiang.

Li Xiao gravely wounded Feng Yuxiang with a Wind Thunder arrow, then aimed a second arrow at Feng Fu, who tried to catch it with his bare hands. The arrow struck Feng Fu’s palms with devastating force, leaving the outcome of the clash unresolved.

• Li Xiao pierced Feng Yuxiang’s Scorching Qi Wall and struck his chest with a Wind Thunder arrow, inflicting a near-fatal wound.
• Feng Fu erupted in rage and locked his attention on Li Xiao, while the onlookers reeled at Li Xiao’s strength.
• Li Xiao nocked a second arrow and used Wind Listening to track Feng Fu, whose hidden Exotic Insect gave his aura a strange, gloomy quality.
• Feng Fu abandoned his attempt to evade the arrow and charged forward, combining his Blazing Sun True Intent with the Exotic Insect’s power to catch it.
• Li Xiao released the arrow, and Feng Fu clamped it between his palms; the collision shattered bones and scorched flesh.

Li Xiao fired a devastating triple volley that left Feng Fu grievously wounded but still alive. Feng Fu fled the North City Gate, threatening revenge, while Li Xiao remained behind exhausted.

• Feng Fu charged Li Xiao after blocking his first arrow with his badly injured hands.
• Li Xiao fired three arrows at once, striking Feng Fu in the chest and throat.
• Feng Fu survived his fatal wounds and chose to abandon Feng Yuxiang and flee.
• Feng Fu threatened to return with the Military Governor's army and slaughter Li Xiao's family and allies.
• Li Xiao dismissed Feng Fu's threats as he lowered his bow, weakened by the arrows he had fired.

Li Xiao killed Feng Fu with a final arrow that anticipated his desperate evasion, ending the Feng Family elder’s attempt to flee Willow City. He searched Feng Fu’s body for the life-bound Exotic Insect but found no valuable items, while Feng Yuxiang and Qian Li remained gravely wounded.

• Feng Fu fled through the city gate, but Li Xiao predicted his evasive movement and shot an arrow through his head.
• Li Xiao surveyed the wounded Feng Yuxiang and Qian Li and recognized that Willow City’s turmoil was only beginning.
• Li Xiao searched Feng Fu’s corpse for the Exotic Insect, but Qian Li explained that a life-bound symbiotic insect died with its host.
• Li Xiao found no valuable belongings on Feng Fu’s corpse.

After Feng Yuxiang died by releasing his remaining Internal Force, Li Xiao sent the wounded Qian Li and the martial arts school disciples away and decided to seize Willow City before Zhu He returned. He headed to the Golden Sand Gang headquarters, where Wang Jinshan and the gang’s leaders were discussing the chaos.

• Feng Yuxiang warned Li Xiao that the Military Governor would seek revenge, then withdrew his remaining Internal Force and died from his injuries.
• Li Xiao ordered Zhao Hu to take the gravely wounded Qian Li and the surviving disciples away for treatment.
• Li Xiao realized Zhu He might try to eliminate him upon returning and weighed fleeing against taking control of Willow City.
• Li Xiao chose to seize the city and made the Golden Sand Gang his first target because he was one of its Hall Masters and had ties to Wang Jinshan and Wang Hai.
• Li Xiao arrived at the Golden Sand Gang headquarters and entered its Council Hall, where Wang Jinshan and the gang’s leaders were discussing the upheaval in Willow City.

Li Xiao told the Golden Sand Gang that Feng Fu and Feng Yuxiang were dead and urged them to unite Willow City's forces to ambush Zhu He. When Elder Sun opposed the plan, Li Xiao accused him of undermining morale and moved to seize him.

• Li Xiao revealed that Feng Fu had been the Yellow Robe Cult Master, Qian Li had secretly controlled Black Wind Stronghold, and Zhu He had used the bandit campaign to eliminate Willow City's martial masters.
• Li Xiao demonstrated his Martial Way True Intent, convincing Wang Jinshan that he could have killed Feng Fu and Feng Yuxiang.
• Li Xiao proposed that the Golden Sand Gang help intercept Zhu He, promising to share control of Willow City and its resources if they succeeded.
• Elder Sun warned that fighting Zhu He and the Government Office was too dangerous, and several gang leaders supported his caution.
• Li Xiao accused Elder Sun of disrupting morale and lunged at him, reaching for his throat.

Li Xiao killed Elder Sun in the Council Hall and forced Wang Jinshan to commit the Golden Sand Gang to destroying the Feng and Zhu Families. He then went alone to the Wild Dog Gang headquarters, where Tu Gang and his Rending Tooth Mastiff reacted to his overwhelming presence with shock and fear.

• Li Xiao killed Elder Sun and silenced the Council Hall by asking whether anyone else supported delay or belonged to Zhu He.
• Li Xiao reminded Wang Jinshan of his enmity with the Yellow Robe Cult Master and the Feng Family, and Wang Jinshan agreed to join him against the Feng and Zhu Families.
• Li Xiao ordered Wang Jinshan to gather fighting forces and contact Willow City's factions, warning that those who refused would be killed.
• Li Xiao walked through the Wild Dog Gang's members, overwhelming them with his Martial Way True Intent, and entered its headquarters.
• Tu Gang recognized Li Xiao, while the Rending Tooth Mastiff tucked its tail and showed fear of him.

Li Xiao forced Tu Gang and the Wild Dog Gang to submit, then ordered Tu Gang to guard Willow City's gates and join him in recruiting the other martial arts halls. The chapter left Li Xiao preparing to move against Zhu He with the city's factions under his command.

• Li Xiao told Tu Gang that Feng Fu and Feng Yuxiang were dead, Qian Li was badly injured, and he wanted the Wild Dog Gang to join him against Zhu He.
• Tu Gang resisted Li Xiao's demand and attacked him alongside the Rending Tooth Mastiff.
• Li Xiao dodged their attacks with Dragon-Snake Illusory Body and struck Tu Gang, breaking several ribs and leaving him badly injured.
• Li Xiao threatened Tu Gang and the Wild Dog Gang, and Tu Gang agreed to follow him.
• Li Xiao ordered Tu Gang to have the others guard Willow City's major gates and bring the gang's elites to the other martial arts halls.

Li Xiao gathered Willow City’s martial arts schools and the Golden Sand Gang against Zhu He after revealing the danger facing their disciples. He drove the allied forces to attack the Feng Family Mansion, binding them to his cause as they charged in to kill its defenders.

• Tu Gang obeyed Li Xiao’s orders, secured key routes in Willow City, and followed him to recruit the city’s martial arts schools.
• Li Xiao convinced Hong Lie, Tan Gang, and Liu Feiyan that Zhu He’s bandit-suppression operation threatened their disciples, and they agreed to fight alongside him.
• Li Xiao arrived at the Feng Family Mansion, where Wang Jinshan’s Golden Sand Gang was locked in a standoff with Feng family and Yellow Robe Cult defenders.
• Li Xiao claimed Feng Fu and Feng Yuxiang had been executed and ordered the allied leaders to leave no Feng family member or Yellow Robe Cult follower alive.
• Wang Jinshan, Tu Gang, Hong Lie, Tan Gang, and Liu Feiyan led their forces into the mansion while Li Xiao watched.

Li Xiao’s forces destroyed the Feng Family and captured its surviving elders, then uncovered the family’s crimes and a hidden threat. A Feng elder warned that the Patriarch’s second son had studied under a Qi Cultivator for twenty years, leaving Li Xiao’s allies shaken as he urged them not to fear what had already happened.

• Li Xiao’s forces overwhelmed the Feng family remnants and Yellow Robe Cultists, capturing three surviving Third-Turn Martial Masters.
• Li Xiao tortured a captured elder until he agreed to explain Zhu He’s bandit suppression and the Feng family’s affairs.
• The elder revealed that Feng Fu had used young women, including women of his own clan, to nourish an exotic insect and prolong his life.
• A defiant Feng Family Elder revealed that the Patriarch’s second son had studied under a Qi Cultivator for twenty years and threatened revenge on Willow City.
• Wang Jinshan, Tu Gang, Hong Lie, and the others grew fearful, but Li Xiao told them that regret and fear would not help now.

After destroying the Feng Family, Li Xiao led the surviving gangs and martial arts halls to attack the Zhu Family estate while Zhu He was away. The Zhu Family's defenses collapsed, and Li Xiao's forces confronted Zhu He's eldest son, Zhu Wenhuan, as his other son Zhu Wenjun and Lin Yue watched with their infant.

• Li Xiao killed the captured Feng Family elders and rallied his allies to target Zhu He and the Zhu Family.
• Li Xiao ordered his forces to seize the Feng Family's supplies and storm the lightly defended Zhu Family estate.
• Wang Jinshan, Tu Gang, and the martial arts hall disciples broke through the Zhu Family's outer defenses and pushed into the estate.
• Zhu Wenhuan recognized Li Xiao as the strategist behind the attack and accused him of deceiving the Zhu Family.
• Zhu Wenjun and Lin Yue watched from the inner residence as Li Xiao's forces besieged Zhu Wenhuan and his loyal guards.

Li Xiao led the final assault that defeated the Zhu Family, and Zhu Wenjun and Lin Yue each begged him to spare them. The chapter ended with Lin Yue pleading for her infant’s life while Li Xiao remained silent.

• Li Xiao declared that the Zhu Family would be destroyed and said Zhu He had already been killed by Feng Fu and Feng Yuxiang.
• Wang Jinshan, Tu Gang, and the others attacked the Zhu Family’s stronghold, capturing Zhu Wenhuan and Zhu Wenjun while Liu Feiyan subdued Lin Yue.
• Zhu Wenjun begged Li Xiao for mercy and blamed Lin Yue for the conflict, provoking Zhu Wenhuan’s furious condemnation.
• Lin Yue, shocked by Zhu Wenjun’s betrayal, crawled toward Li Xiao and pleaded for him to spare her and her infant.

Li Xiao killed Lin Yue, Zhu Wenjun, and Zhu Wenhuan, then ordered the Wild Dog Gang to wipe out the Zhu Family. He looked toward the road to Black Wind Ridge, where Zhu Wenhuan’s father was expected to return.

• Li Xiao revealed that he had killed Lin Yue’s relatives, then crushed Lin Yue’s head while sparing neither her nor the infant in her arms.
• Li Xiao reminded Zhu Wenjun that he knew about Zhu Qi and Zhu Wu, and a Wild Dog Gang martial master killed Zhu Wenjun.
• Zhu Wenhuan laughed at his family’s defeat, threatened that his father would avenge them, and Wang Jinshan beheaded him.
• Li Xiao ordered the Zhu Family wiped out, and his followers purged the remaining resistance in the manor.
• Li Xiao looked beyond Willow City toward the official road to Black Wind Ridge.

Zhu He and Shi Gandang’s alliance destroyed Black Wind Stronghold and slaughtered the martial arts schools’ forces, but their triumphant return was blocked by a coalition led by Li Xiao. Li Xiao prepared to face them in a public confrontation that could establish his authority over his uneasy allies.

• Zhu He and Shi Gandang’s forces finished slaughtering the martial arts schools’ fighters and burned Black Wind Stronghold.
• Shi Gandang worried that Qingshi Martial Arts School had lost too many disciples, while Zhu He celebrated their victory and promised rewards.
• Zhu He led the exhausted survivors and seized spoils down the mountain toward Willow City.
• A scout warned Zhu He that martial arts schools and gangs had blocked the road ahead.
• Zhu He and Shi Gandang found Wang Jinshan, Tu Gang, Hong Lie, Tan Gang, Liu Feiyan, and more than a hundred others gathered under Li Xiao’s leadership.
• Li Xiao advanced with his allies but held back from ordering an attack, seeking an open victory that would secure his authority.

Zhu He tried to justify the slaughter of Willow City's martial arts disciples and threatened Li Xiao's allies with the power of the Prince of Nanyang. Li Xiao turned Zhu He's reasoning against him and had a bundle thrown at his feet, leaving its contents unrevealed.

• Zhu He claimed the campaign against Black Wind Stronghold had succeeded and that the martial arts disciples had died heroically.
• Wang Jinshan revealed that Feng Fu was the Yellow Robe Cult Master and that Qian Li was behind Black Wind Stronghold.
• Master Hong, Tan Gang, and Liu Feiyan accused Zhu He and Shi Gandang of luring and killing the disciples.
• Zhu He and Shi Gandang admitted their roles and invoked the Prince of Nanyang to threaten the gathered martial artists into backing down.
• Li Xiao used their justification to argue that killing Zhu Family members was equally reasonable, then ordered a Wild Dog Gang martial master to throw a cloth-wrapped bundle before Zhu He.

After Zhu He discovered the dead infant of Zhu Wenjun and Lin Yue, he flew into a rage and ordered his forces to attack Li Xiao’s allies. Li Xiao revealed his Fourth Turn strength and Wind Thunder Arrow Intent, then fired at Zhu He as the battle began.

• Zhu He found the dead infant of Zhu Wenjun and Lin Yue in the bundle and erupted in grief and fury.
• Zhu He ordered his men to kill everyone, and Shi Gandang commanded the Qingshi Martial Arts School to attack.
• Li Xiao said retreat was impossible and urged his allies to kill Zhu He and Shi Gandang to take Willow City.
• Zhang Fuhai regretted joining Zhu He after realizing how dangerous the battle had become.
• Zhu He charged Li Xiao and attacked with his saber, but Li Xiao revealed his Fourth Turn strength and Wind Thunder Arrow Intent.
• Li Xiao released the arrow toward Zhu He.

Li Xiao’s arrow broke Zhu He’s saber and wounded him, shifting the battlefield’s morale and revealing the extent of Li Xiao’s strength. Zhu He refused to surrender, and Li Xiao prepared to fire three arrows as their decisive fight began.

• Li Xiao shot Zhu He with an arrow that shattered his saber, injured his arm, and left him internally shaken.
• Li Xiao taunted Zhu He, while Wang Jinshan, Tu Gang, Hong Lie, and the others gained confidence and Zhang Fuhai began looking for a way to flee.
• Zhu He realized Li Xiao had killed Zhu Wu, Zhu Qi, Zhao Kun, and the Lin Family, and Li Xiao confirmed it.
• Zhu He acknowledged that he had underestimated Li Xiao but declared that only one of them would survive.
• Li Xiao drew three Dark Black Arrows and gathered Wind Thunder True Intent around them as he prepared to attack Zhu He.

Zhu He feigned a last stand, used two Qingshi Martial Arts School disciples as distractions, and fled into the Dense Forest, while Shi Gandang and Zhang Fuhai also escaped. Li Xiao pursued Zhu He and killed him with three arrows, ending his attempt to survive and regroup.

• Zhu He threw two Qingshi Martial Arts School disciples at Li Xiao and used the recoil to flee into the Dense Forest.
• Shi Gandang ordered his trusted aides to retreat, while Zhang Fuhai fled toward Qingyun County.
• Li Xiao dodged the two disciples, then chased Zhu He into the forest using Dragon-Snake Illusory Body.
• Li Xiao used Wind Listening to predict Zhu He's path and fired three arrows through an ancient tree to strike him mid-leap.
• Zhu He died from his wounds, and Li Xiao confirmed that he was dead.