Chapter Summaries

After hotel staff failed to stop Young Master Kou from smashing a neighboring room’s door, Chen Mo opened his own door and confronted the men sent to punish him. He incapacitated two of them and began questioning one about Young Master Kou, leaving the man terrified and unable to move.

• Hotel staff asked Young Master Kou to quiet down, but he ordered his men to keep smashing the door and demanded a key card.
• Young Master Kou learned Chen Mo had complained and sent two men to confront him.
• Chen Mo opened his door, let the two men into his room, and asked whether they had a problem with his call.
• When the men threatened him, Chen Mo knocked them down, sealed their nerves with a silver needle, and immobilized them.
• Chen Mo revived one man with a painful poke, slapped him when he talked back, and demanded to know who Young Master Kou was.

Chen Mo learned that Kou Baiming had sent his men after him while harassing a woman in Nantong, then confronted Kou and his subordinates when they came to his room. Chen Mo knocked out several men and blocked Kou Baiming’s escape.

• Chen Mo interrogated two of Kou Baiming’s men and learned about Kou’s family, his harassment of a businesswoman, and why he had sent men after Chen Mo.
• Kou Baiming grew suspicious when the two men he had sent next door failed to return, then ordered his subordinates to investigate.
• Chen Mo knocked out the two men in his room and hid them in the bathtub as Kou Baiming’s group kicked the door open.
• Kou Baiming found his men in the bathtub and accused Chen Mo of causing trouble, so Chen Mo attacked and knocked out two more subordinates.
• Kou Baiming tried to flee, but Chen Mo flipped between him and the door, stopping his escape.

Chen Mo drove Kou Baiming and his men out after defeating them, then left the hotel to avoid trouble with the Kou family. In the elevator, Ni Ni reminded him that he had saved her months earlier and began to explain her connection to the incident.

• Kou Baiming ordered his three remaining men to attack Chen Mo, but Chen Mo knocked them down and refused to let Kou Baiming call their clash even.
• Chen Mo let Kou Baiming leave with his injured men, then gathered his belongings and decided to leave the hotel before the Kou family could involve the police.
• Ni Ni stopped Chen Mo as he headed for the elevator and asked him to leave with her.
• Ni Ni told Chen Mo that he had saved her in a traffic accident on the Provincial Highway in West City a few months earlier.
• Chen Mo remembered Ni Ni and asked why she was in Nantong and how she had become involved with Kou Baiming.

Ni Ni told Chen Mo how Kou Baiming had harassed and pursued her in Nantong, and Chen Mo took her out of the hotel. After Chen Mo fought off the lobby manager and guards who tried to stop them, they were forced to halt when several people entered the hotel.

• Ni Ni explained that Kou Baiming had repeatedly found and harassed her after she came to Nantong alone with an assistant.
• Chen Mo told Ni Ni to leave the hotel with him, but the lobby manager tried to detain them until the police arrived.
• Chen Mo choked the lobby manager and used him to knock down the guards who tried to surround him.
• Chen Mo threatened the lobby manager until the guards backed away, then led Ni Ni toward the entrance.
• Chen Mo and Ni Ni stopped near the entrance when several people walked into the hotel.

Chen Mo refused to go to the police station after officers arrived at the hotel, then attacked them and the lobby manager when they tried to detain him. The officers drew their guns and ordered him to surrender, leaving Ni Ni frozen in fear.

• Police officers arrived at the hotel and stopped Chen Mo and Ni Ni after the lobby manager identified them.
• An officer asked Chen Mo to come to the police station over a reported fight, and the lobby manager offered surveillance footage as evidence.
• Chen Mo refused to cooperate, slapped away an officer’s handcuffs, and kicked the officers who surrounded him.
• Chen Mo grabbed the lobby manager and struck him, knocking out two of his molars.
• The lead officer drew his pistol and ordered Chen Mo to put his hands up and lie face-down as Ni Ni froze behind him.

Chen Mo disarmed the police who tried to arrest him and showed them his Special Affairs Administration identification. The officers waited for their captain to arrive, while Chen Mo remained in the hotel lobby.

• Chen Mo used a Flash Step to seize an officer’s gun, held him as a shield, and shot the other officers’ guns from their hands.
• Chen Mo collected the weapons and showed his Special Affairs Administration identification to the lead officer.
• The lead officer confirmed the identification was genuine and called his captain, who decided not to alert Kou Baiming.
• Chen Mo refused to return the police weapons and kicked the hotel lobby manager, leaving him injured.
• Chen Mo and the police waited in the lobby for the captain to arrive.

Chen Mo confronted Nantong Police Station Chief Feng Zeyuan over the police’s actions and refused to return their pistols at first. After Feng warned him that the Kou family would keep causing trouble, Chen returned the guns and left Nantong with Ni Ni.

• Ni Ni watched Chen Mo show his Special Affairs Administration ID, after which the police ignored his actions in the hotel lobby.
• Feng Zeyuan arrived, introduced himself as chief of the Nantong Police Station, and called the night’s events a misunderstanding when Chen demanded an explanation.
• Chen refused to return the four pistols, telling Feng to contact his superior, Ning Yongzhi, if he objected.
• Feng appealed to Chen’s understanding of the pressure in Nantong and warned that the Kou family would continue to cause trouble if Chen stayed.
• Chen returned the pistols, and Feng advised him to leave Nantong and deal with the Kou family through higher authorities.
• Chen left with Ni Ni as Feng and the other officers departed without investigating the hotel or the gunshot.

After Chen Mo let Feng Zeyuan and the others go, he took Ni Ni from the hotel and learned how her relatives were scheming to seize her company. When Chen Mo briefly left to get his car, Kou Baiming’s men abducted Ni Ni, prompting Chen Mo to chase them.

• Feng Zeyuan yielded to Chen Mo’s demands, and Chen Mo later realized Feng would report the encounter to Kou Baiming.
• Chen Mo and Ni Ni left the hotel, and Ni Ni reflected on her relatives’ efforts to take control of her company and Kou Baiming’s harassment in Nantong.
• Chen Mo left Ni Ni on a back street while he retrieved his car, then returned to find several men dragging her into a van.
• Chen Mo pursued the van, believing Kou Baiming had ordered the abduction after Feng reported what happened.
• Kou Baiming dismissed Chen Mo as a weak martial artist and relied on his connections within the Special Affairs Administration.

Kou Baiming ordered Ni Ni seized and summoned two Houtian Layer Five Martial Artists to deal with Chen Mo, unaware of Chen Mo’s strength. Chen Mo rescued Ni Ni from the thugs’ van and began forcing them to reveal where they had planned to take her.

• Kou Baiming sent an underling to seize Ni Ni and called two Houtian Layer Five Martial Artists to capture Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo punctured the van’s tire with the Soul Chasing Nail, then rammed it to keep it from overturning with Ni Ni inside.
• Chen Mo tore off the van’s door, disarmed the thugs, injured their hands, and pulled Ni Ni to safety.
• Chen Mo dragged the four thugs from the van and kicked them until they coughed up blood, then told Ni Ni to get back in his car.
• Chen Mo demanded to know where the thugs had planned to take Ni Ni, and when one stayed silent, he smashed the man’s calf with a steel pipe.

Chen Mo interrogated the gangsters who had abducted Ni Ni, learned that Kou Zhixing and people from the Kou family were involved, and incapacitated the men. He arranged for Ni Ni to drive home safely while he planned to return and confront Kou Baiming.

• Chen Mo forced a gangster to reveal that Oldest Brother Mao had ordered the abduction and that Kou Zhixing was involved.
• Chen Mo pricked the gangsters with needles, left one conscious to lead the way, and then knocked him unconscious and put him in the car.
• Chen Mo took a car from the Universe Bead and told Ni Ni to drive home while he followed her to the highway.
• Chen Mo told Ni Ni he would turn back after the first service area and confront Kou Baiming, while Ni Ni worried about the danger.

Chen Mo returned to Nantong after sending Ni Ni toward Shangshi, then tracked down the gangsters’ base at a remote factory. He incapacitated the guards and approached the office where Brother Mao and Kou Zhixing were discussing their work for the Kou family.

• Chen Mo exchanged contact information with Ni Ni, gave her his car, and sent her on toward Shangshi.
• Chen Mo switched cars and license plates, kept the gangster captive, and used him to answer Brother Mao’s call while driving back to Nantong.
• Chen Mo reached a remote factory, knocked out the guards in the entrance room, and disabled them with acupuncture needles.
• Chen Mo sensed people in the old office building and approached carefully so they would not flee.
• Brother Mao and Kou Zhixing discussed their resentment at serving Kou Baiming and their dependence on the Kou family for cultivation resources.

Chen Mo discovered that the men in the building were imprisoning and abusing women, and his anger grew as he learned how they had been forced into prostitution. After confirming that the two men upstairs were Brother Mao and Brother Xing, he broke into their room to capture them.

• Chen Mo sent the giant snake back into the Spirit Beast Breeding Zone when it attacked him, then restrained it again.
• Chen Mo searched the building with his Spiritual Sense and found women imprisoned in a basement, including one being assaulted.
• Chen Mo listened to the men in the monitoring room and learned that they had tricked women from outside NT City into prostitution and punished those who resisted.
• Chen Mo decided to capture Brother Mao and Brother Xing before confronting the people abusing the women.
• Chen Mo climbed to the third floor, confirmed the two men were Brother Mao and Brother Xing, and broke through their window latch.

Chen Mo attacked Mao Huili and Kou Zhixing, slaughtered the people at the factory, and tried to force them to reveal the Kou family residence. He left Mao Huili immobilized and suffering under his torture while Kou Zhixing remained captive.

• Chen Mo entered disguised and knocked Mao Huili and Kou Zhixing into the wall with one punch and one kick.
• Chen Mo used the Soul Chasing Nail to kill the three men outside the room and the people on the factory’s first floor.
• Chen Mo killed the man from the basement and demanded that Mao Huili and Kou Zhixing tell him where the Kou family lived.
• When they stayed silent, Chen Mo crushed Mao Huili’s knee and immobilized both men with silver needles.
• Chen Mo stabbed Mao Huili beneath the ribs, causing unbearable numb itching that left him crying out and losing control of his bladder and bowels.

Chen Mo tortured Mao Huili until he revealed the Kou family’s residence, members, and plans, then forced Kou Zhixing to confirm and expand the information. He learned that Kou Baiming had arranged an ambush and that the family’s deputy director, Kou Zhi, was involved, leaving Chen Mo with details for targeting the Kou family.

• Chen Mo ended Mao Huili’s ordeal and threatened him until he disclosed the Kou family’s main residence and its members.
• Chen Mo knocked Mao Huili unconscious, woke Kou Zhixing, and made him recount everything he knew about the Kou family.
• Kou Zhixing described the family residence, its occupants, and its secret businesses, while Chen Mo compared his account with Mao Huili’s.
• Chen Mo learned Kou Baiming had sent two Houtian Layer Five Martial Artists to ambush him at the industrial area.
• Chen Mo discovered that Kou Zhi, a Houtian Layer Seven Martial Artist and deputy director of the Sichuan Province branch of the Special Affairs Administration, was involved, and that Kou Rui was the family’s Clan Leader and only Houtian Layer Eight Master.

Chen Mo killed Mao Huili and Kou Zhixing, then raided Mao Huili’s factory, taking down two Houtian Layer Five Masters and freeing the women held in its basement. He gave each woman 100,000 yuan and urged them to leave NT City, while the two Masters and the factory’s evidence remained in his possession.

• After learning the Kou family's information, Chen Mo snapped Kou Zhixing and Mao Huili’s necks and left for the factory building.
• Chen Mo used the Soul Chasing Nail to kill two Houtian Layer Five Masters, knocked out the women with them, and subdued the factory staff.
• Chen Mo took Mao Huili’s cash and the bodies and monitoring equipment, then went to the basement.
• Chen Mo freed the imprisoned women, gave each one 100,000 yuan, and told them to leave the industrial complex and get out of NT City quickly.

Chen Mo used the Soul Chasing Nail to kill the men running the facility and freed the captive women. After the women finally believed they could leave, Chen Mo began preparing to dispose of the bodies and erase evidence that might lead investigators to him.

• Chen Mo reflected on the Soul Chasing Nail's power and used it to kill the people who deserved to die, including two Houtian Layer Five Martial Artists from the Kou family.
• Chen Mo handed the women 100,000 yuan each and carried two corpses downstairs, but the women remained too frightened to leave.
• A woman timidly asked whether they were truly free, and Chen Mo assured the women that he had killed everyone who had committed evil there.
• The women broke down crying with relief, and Chen Mo let them grieve before urging them to leave.
• Chen Mo decided to destroy the bodies and erase evidence so the Special Affairs Administration would not trace the killings back to him.

Chen Mo freed the women held at the site, gave them money and a van, and sent them away with warnings to avoid NT City. After they left, he destroyed the bodies and evidence, then prepared to find Kou Baiming as NT City faced upheaval.

• Chen Mo stopped the women from returning their money and urged them to leave before more people arrived.
• Chen Mo gave the women a van and directions, warned them to avoid NT City, and declined to reveal his name as they thanked him and departed.
• Chen Mo watched the women drive away, then gathered the dead, killed the Older Brother, and burned the bodies with talismans.
• Chen Mo used his Cleansing Technique to erase evidence and left the building, reflecting that he still had to find Kou Baiming the next day.

Chen Mo infiltrated Kou Family Village, disabled its surveillance system, and confirmed that Kou Baiming was home. He killed Kou Baiming in his courtyard and left the Kou family without its young master.

• Chen Mo reached Kou Family Village and searched for a way past its surveillance cameras.
• Chen Mo knocked out two guards in the surveillance room, found footage confirming Kou Baiming had returned home, and removed the recording devices.
• Chen Mo entered Kou Baiming’s courtyard and silenced him with a silver needle.
• Chen Mo told Kou Baiming that the people he had sent after him were dead, then killed him by breaking his neck.

Chen Mo killed Kou Rui after encountering him while leaving Kou Baiming's courtyard, adding the Kou Clan Leader to the deaths he had already caused. The Kou Clan discovered both deaths, and Kou Zhi urged the clan to protect its interests and investigate quietly rather than seek revenge.

• Chen Mo met Kou Rui outside Kou Baiming's courtyard, recognized him as the Kou Clan Leader, and killed him with the Green Jade Sword.
• Chen Mo left the village and drove home, believing Kou Rui's involvement in the harmful milk powder business made his death deserved.
• The Kou Clan found Kou Rui and Kou Baiming dead in the early hours and called Kou Zhi back to take charge.
• Kou Zhi rejected an immediate investigation or revenge, warning that the killer's strength made caution the wiser choice.
• Chen Mo was surprised by the Kou Clan's response but still had another method he had not used.

Chen Mo headed home to digest the memories and Mental Power he had taken from Bei Ningyun, while Kou Zhi investigated Kou Rui’s death and began to suspect Chen Mo. Kou Zhi decided to keep investigating rather than seek revenge, wary of Chen Mo’s protection within the Special Affairs Administration.

• Chen Mo drove toward home in a new appearance and car, planning to gradually absorb Bei Ningyun’s sealed memories and Mental Power.
• Kou Zhi returned to the Kou family residence, took over as Clan Leader, and began investigating Kou Rui’s death.
• Kou Zhi’s inquiries connected Chen Mo to the events in NT City, but the surveillance footage offered no clear trace of him.
• After reviewing Chen Mo’s Special Affairs Administration file, Kou Zhi doubted that Chen Mo had personally killed Kou Rui but considered that he might have had a powerful ally.
• Kou Zhi listed Chen Mo as the primary suspect in the disappearance of Mao Huili, Kou Zhixing, and two other Kou family martial artists, but chose to continue investigating before considering revenge.
• Chen Mo relied on the Special Affairs Administration’s protection because he feared that retaliation against him could endanger his family.