Chapter Summaries

Fang Yue defeated the Fox Merchant Group’s undefeated guest official, Lord Blind, in an instant, then entered a tent with the Fox Leader to discuss business. He declined the Leader’s attempt to recruit him, saying he would stay with the Great Yang Merchant Group until he repaid his debt.

• Fang Yue noticed Ya Ya, a Short-tailed Tribe player, while the Fox Merchant Group’s members praised Lord Blind’s undefeated record.
• Fang Yue swiftly held his Black Blade to Lord Blind’s neck, and Lord Blind conceded and resigned as the Fox Merchant Group’s guest official.
• The Fox Merchant Group members accused Fang Yue of cheating, but Fang Yue challenged them all to fight him at once.
• The Fox Leader stopped the commotion and invited Fang Yue into a tent to answer his questions.
• The Fox Leader apologized, praised Fang Yue’s strength, and offered to pay double the Great Yang Merchant Group’s price to recruit him.
• Fang Yue declined, saying he would stay with the Great Yang Merchant Group until he repaid his debt, while promising to consider the Fox Merchant Group afterward.

Fang Yue left the Fox Merchant Group without learning anything about the Phoenix Organization or An Dong'er, but recruited the Blind Swordsman to accompany him. Afterward, Old Fox sent a letter to Lord Horse Seat using a Golden Silk Toad and revealed that his body was covered in blood-blister-like wounds.

• Fang Yue failed to find clues about the Phoenix Organization or An Dong'er at the Fox Merchant Group and left to visit other merchant groups.
• Fang Yue encountered the Blind Swordsman waiting outside, dismissed his claims about an undisclosed sword technique, and agreed to bring him to the Great Yang Merchant Group as a potential guest minister.
• The Blind Swordsman revealed that he had faked his twenty-seven consecutive victories by paying people to challenge him, and he introduced himself as Blind Ox Son after Fang Yue gave the name Ye Niu Niu.
• Old Fox wrote a letter to Lord Horse Seat and placed it in a Golden Silk Toad, which burst a blood blister on his hand.
• Old Fox uncovered his body and revealed numerous blood-blister-like wounds as he pleaded with Lord Horse Seat to help his race rise up.

Horse Seat watched An Dong'er’s anomalous powers wreak havoc inside the Phoenix Organization’s sealed room, then left after receiving urgent reports about Fang Yue and the Great Yang Merchant Group. Back at the group, Fang Yue struggled to buy information about the Phoenix Organization because the brokers demanded exorbitant fees.

• Old Fox warned Hua Zhu not to reveal the Short-tailed Tribe’s secrets after she blurted out that Blind Ox Son had left.
• An Dong’er sat unresponsive in the Phoenix Organization’s room as strange phenomena killed a researcher bringing food.
• Horse Seat suspected An Dong’er was his only chance to complete his plan, but he received reports about Fang Yue’s arrival and the Phoenix Organization’s setbacks.
• Horse Seat left An Dong’er’s room, while faint baby cries echoed around her as if welcoming a new helper.
• Fang Yue returned to the Great Yang Merchant Group and found that Void Bean brokers demanded a huge hush fee for information about the Phoenix Organization and Horse Seat.

Fang Yue bought intelligence about the Phoenix Organization from the Void Bean Information Organization, learned several groups and figures might be connected to it, and avoided further pursuit by threatening its spies. He returned to the Great Yang Merchant Group with Blind Flow and was hurried to the young lady’s room, where he heard her smashing things.

• Fang Yue paid 100 Calamity Stones to learn that the Fox Merchant Group, Old City Merchant Group, and Empty Mountain Merchant Group were involved with the Phoenix Organization, then received more details about other suspected connections.
• Fang Yue paid a Calamity Stone to protect his identity and struck at the Void Wraiths following him, prompting the information dealer to stop investigating him.
• Fang Yue met Blind Flow and returned with him to the Great Yang Merchant Group, where Steward Hai explained that Blind Flow had quit the Fox Merchant Group and wanted work as an adviser.
• Steward Hai hurried Fang Yue to the young lady’s room, where she was throwing a tantrum and smashing things.

After inheriting leadership of the Great Yang Merchant Group, the young lady discovered her father’s secret ties to the Phoenix Organization and feared that investigating it would endanger the group. Fang Yue revealed that rival merchant groups were also connected to the organization, leaving the young lady to hand him the documents as he promised to find information without exposing their contact.

• The young lady told Fang Yue that confidential files showed the Great Yang Merchant Group had exchanged letters with the Phoenix Organization.
• She explained that the group’s contact was its only link to the organization and that betraying or killing him could make the group a target.
• The young lady learned that her father had once helped the Phoenix Organization transport Human Medicine and Medicine Person materials, and she grieved over the collapse of her image of him.
• Fang Yue promised not to endanger the group’s contact and revealed that three competing merchant groups were also involved with the Phoenix Organization.
• The young lady and Steward Hai considered why the rival groups kept competing, and the young lady concluded that the Phoenix Organization was a burden.
• The young lady handed Fang Yue the documents.

Fang Yue and Steward Hai uncovered how the Phoenix Organization and Bingla were involved in the Great Yang Merchant Group’s recent disasters, then recruited Blind Flow as a Guest Minister in exchange for information about the Fox Merchant Group. Blind Flow revealed that the mirror had originally belonged to the Fox Merchant Group.

• Fang Yue found a task to recruit Bingla as a Guest Minister, leading the young lady and Steward Hai to conclude that the Phoenix Organization had arranged her kidnapping.
• Steward Hai reasoned that another Merchant Group may have given Bingla the mirror, which he used to turn Third Miss into an anomaly and cause the Great Yang Merchant Group massacre.
• Fang Yue decided he could target the three families in the Fox Merchant Group while hiding his identity behind a Human Skin Mask.
• Fang Yue invited Blind Flow to join the Great Yang Merchant Group as a Guest Minister and demanded information about the Fox Merchant Group.
• Blind Flow disclosed that the mirror had originally belonged to the Fox Merchant Group.

Fang Yue set out to eliminate the Fox Merchant Group, but masked attackers and the Short-tailed Tribe raided the Great Yang Merchant Group while he was away. After killing a masked man on the way, Fang Yue reached the Fox Merchant Group and noticed it had too few people.

• Fang Yue learned from the lecherous blind man about the Fox Merchant Group’s bloody rise and agreed to target it first.
• Fang Yue left Blind Flow to help protect the Great Yang Merchant Group while he went out to hunt that night.
• Two masked men killed guards at the Great Yang Merchant Group, then led more attackers over the wall; Tai Mei arrived and charged in with her people.
• Fang Yue killed a masked man he encountered on the way to the Fox Merchant Group and gained a system reward.
• Fang Yue reached the Fox Merchant Group’s camp and noticed there were too few people there.

Fang Yue infiltrated the Fox Merchant Group’s camp and began killing its guards, disrupting Old Fox’s planned attack on the Great Yang Merchant Group. He seized Old Fox and demanded to know who his informant was.

• Fang Yue noticed the Fox Merchant Group’s camp was lightly guarded and slipped inside to attack its patrols.
• Old Fox prepared to capture Yang Hongxia and slaughter the Great Yang Merchant Group with backing from the Phoenix Organization.
• Old Fox spotted patrol torches going out, sent two guards to investigate, and watched their lights vanish.
• A masked figure rushed to Old Fox and seized him by the neck before he could defend himself.
• Fang Yue asked Old Fox who his informant was.

Fang Yue forced Old Fox to contact the Phoenix Organization’s informant while slaughtering the Fox Merchant Group’s guards. Old Fox’s letter revealed that his people were trying to capture Yang Hongxia, giving Fang Yue a possible way to meet the informant.

• Fang Yue severed Old Fox’s arm and learned that a Golden Silk Toad carried messages between him and the Phoenix Organization.
• Fang Yue gave Old Fox one minute to write a message that would lure the informant into a meeting, threatening to destroy the Fox Merchant Group if he failed.
• Fang Yue killed the guards who rushed to Old Fox’s tent and threw Old Fox back inside when he tried to call for help.
• Old Fox wrote that a person had been captured and requested a meeting for delivery, and Fang Yue demanded a translation.
• Old Fox revealed that his men were on their way to capture Yang Hongxia of the Great Yang Merchant Group, intending to use her as a bargaining chip at the meeting.

Fang Yue killed Old Fox after learning that the Fox Merchant Group had gone to capture Yang Hongxia, then rushed to the Great Yang Mansion. He arrived to find the mansion burning and its people under attack, and ran inside after hearing Yang Hongxia call for help.

• Fang Yue questioned Old Fox, killed him, and discovered that the Fox Merchant Group planned to capture Yang Hongxia for the Phoenix Organization.
• Fang Yue killed the guards who approached him and hurried toward the Great Yang Mansion to protect Yang Hongxia and preserve the Great Yang Merchant Group.
• Fang Yue found the Great Yang Mansion engulfed in flames and suspected that Blind Flow had betrayed the group or been unable to stop the attack.
• Fang Yue killed more than thirty men in black near the mansion gate and realized that multiple Merchant Groups might have been ordered to seize Yang Hongxia.
• Fang Yue entered the burning mansion, found bodies of Great Yang guards and Short-tailed Tribe attackers, and heard Yang Hongxia cry for help.

Great Yang Mansion came under attack from black-clad fighters and the Short-tailed Tribe, while Blind Flow protected Yang Hongxia. After a Phoenix Gathering Order was sent, the attackers fought over the mission, and the chapter ended with Steward Hai dying after shielding Yang Hongxia from Short-tailed Tribe Tai Mei.

• Blind Flow killed attackers while guarding Yang Hongxia, who promised to make him Great Yang Mansion’s second Supreme Guest Minister.
• Hua Zhu and Short-tailed Tribe Tai Mei revealed that the second wave of attackers belonged to the Fox Merchant Group and joined the fight.
• The black-clad fighters launched a Phoenix Gathering Order, prompting Tai Mei to recognize their connection to the Phoenix Organization and attack them.
• Tai Mei’s fighters drove off most of the black-clad attackers, then turned on Great Yang Mansion’s exhausted guards to seize Yang Hongxia.
• Steward Hai blocked Tai Mei’s strike against Yang Hongxia and collapsed with a fatal chest wound, as Tai Mei attacked again.

Blind Flow intervened to protect the eldest miss and fought the Short-tailed Tribe, but their Tai Mei unleashed her berserk mode and gravely wounded him. As the Tai Mei lunged for the eldest miss and Great Yang Mansion’s defenders fell, the chapter left her facing imminent capture and the Merchant Group’s destruction.

• Blind Flow arrived in time to block the Short-tailed Tribe Tai Mei’s attack on the eldest miss and Steward Hai.
• Blind Flow rejected the Short-tailed Tribe’s pleas to return and killed more than ten of its women as he fought alongside the Great Yang Merchant Group.
• The Short-tailed Tribe Tai Mei entered berserk mode and overpowered Blind Flow, tearing open his side and hurling him and the others apart.
• The eldest miss found Steward Hai barely alive and called for help while Blind Flow fled and the Tai Mei lunged to seize her.

Fang Yue returned in time to kill the Short-tailed Tribe Tai Mei and protect the young lady, then defeated Rat Seat when the Phoenix Organization’s Twelve Seat attacked him. He left the young lady with Blind Flow and approached Rat Seat, who might know where An Dong'er was.

• Fang Yue returned as time resumed, crushed the Short-tailed Tribe Tai Mei, and killed her with the Black Blade.
• Fang Yue helped the young lady up, and she broke down sobbing against his shoulder as Blind Flow and the others stared in shock.
• A swordsman from the Phoenix Organization attacked Fang Yue, but Fang Yue knocked him into a house and revealed him as Rat Seat.
• Fang Yue ordered Blind Flow to protect the young lady, then walked toward Rat Seat, hoping to learn where An Dong'er was.

Fang Yue chased Rat Seat after Rat Seat fled, while the young miss led the defense of Great Yang Mansion. Steward Hai died at dawn after asking her to sing the nursery rhyme he had taught her as a child, leaving her grieving beside his bed.

• Rat Seat turned and fled from Fang Yue, who pursued him into the darkness.
• Blind Flow ordered the dead soldiers to protect the young miss and the wounded Steward Hai.
• The young miss directed the defenders as they drove back or killed the remaining intruders.
• A physician treated Blind Flow, while Steward Hai's condition worsened through the night.
• Steward Hai asked the young miss to sing Yang Yang Hua, then died as she sang.
• The young miss collapsed over Steward Hai's bed and wept.

Fang Yue returned to Great Yang Mansion, where the eldest young lady begged him to avenge her family by destroying the Fox, Old City, and Empty Mountain Merchant Groups. After agreeing to help if circumstances allowed, he explained how his pursuit of Rat Seat had ended at East Flow Mountain, a place known for Night Bandits and suspected ties to the Phoenix Organization.

• The eldest young lady broke down in Fang Yue's arms and blamed the Fox, Old City, and Empty Mountain Merchant Groups for destroying her family and estate.
• The eldest young lady knelt and injured herself while begging Fang Yue to help her destroy the three Merchant Groups, and he agreed to assist if they remained in the city and circumstances allowed.
• Fang Yue caught the eldest young lady when she fainted, then arranged for her to rest and offered to help manage Great Yang Mansion.
• Fang Yue recalled chasing Rat Seat through the night, but Anomalies and Rat Seat's speed-enhancing pills helped him escape into a mountain.
• After learning the mountain was East Flow Mountain, Fang Yue concluded that the Night Bandits there had close ties with the Phoenix Organization.

Fang Yue managed Great Yang Mansion’s recovery and learned how the Fox, Old City, and Empty Mountain Merchant Groups responded to the upheaval. He rode out to intercept the fleeing Fox Merchant Group and waited beyond Chu Nuan City’s north gate as its people departed.

• Fang Yue directed Great Yang Mansion’s repairs and finances, then encouraged Blind Flow to help rebuild the merchant group and promised to spar with him after his recovery.
• Fang Yue learned that the Fox Merchant Group planned to flee, the Old City Merchant Group had enlisted [Lan Shan] protection, and the Empty Mountain Merchant Group had hired experts.
• Fang Yue ordered his horse prepared and had Blind Flow carried to the main hall to oversee Great Yang Mansion while he went after the Fox Merchant Group.
• Fang Yue rode past pursuing Qing Guards and Lan Guards, left Chu Nuan City through the north gate, and waited outside.
• People from the Short-tailed Tribe arrived with their belongings and supplies and rode out of the city.

Fang Yue trapped and arrested most of the Fox Merchant Group in Chu Nuan City, then returned to Great Yang Mansion with their supplies. He told Lang Qingyi he was a Phoenix Organization undercover agent and claimed he was about to take the Rat Seat, leaving Lang Qingyi suspicious and prompting him to contact his superiors.

• Fang Yue blocked the Fox Merchant Group at the city gate and followed them back into Chu Nuan City.
• Fang Yue showed the guards his White Robe Token, ordered them to arrest the Fox Merchant Group, and killed many members who tried to flee.
• Fang Yue brought the captured supplies back to Great Yang Mansion and learned Yang Hongxia had not yet woken up.
• Fang Yue told Lang Qingyi he was working undercover for Lord Ox Seat and claimed he should be called Lord Rat Seat.
• Lang Qingyi left Great Yang Mansion and contacted his superiors to request a meeting.

After the maid told the young miss that Fang Yue was an Ox Seat in the Phoenix Organization, Fang Yue explained his plan to kill Lang Qingyi before the truth spread. The young miss resolved to deal with the Short-tailed Tribe and insisted on accompanying Fang Yue, while Lang Qingyi was ambushed and killed as he left the Qing Office.

• Lang Qingyi left the Qing Office after dark and was killed by a Black Blade ambusher.
• A maid told the young miss that Fang Yue belonged to the Phoenix Organization and had used the Great Yang Merchant Group to advance his standing.
• The young miss doubted the accusation at first, but Fang Yue confirmed that he had claimed to be part of the Phoenix Organization when meeting Lang Qingyi.
• Fang Yue said he would wait for Lang Qingyi at the Qing Office and kill him to keep the Phoenix Organization from learning what happened.
• The young miss vowed to deal with the Short-tailed Tribe and asked to accompany Fang Yue, insisting that she wanted to witness her enemies' deaths.

Fang Yue agreed to protect the eldest lady, who took back control of the Great Yang Mansion and wondered about the person whose handkerchief Lord Ye carried. The Old City Merchant Group and Empty Mountain Merchant Group prepared for a possible attack, while Fang Yue trained his saber technique before the chapter ended with system notifications.

• Fang Yue agreed to let the eldest lady follow him as long as she obeyed his orders, and she told her maid to keep quiet.
• The eldest lady resumed control of the Great Yang Mansion and recognized that Fang Yue had organized its affairs well.
• The Old City Merchant Group learned of the Great Yang Merchant Group’s recent actions and hired Gan Lan Wei to protect them.
• The Empty Mountain Merchant Group gathered experts, including a Human-Rank expert, while waiting for the Phoenix Organization to respond.
• At dusk, Fang Yue trained with his saber and reviewed system notifications about killing Hua Zhu.

Fang Yue killed Lang Qingyi after ambushing him outside the Azure Division, then set out with the young lady to attack the Empty Mountain Merchant Group. He insisted on striking that night despite its heavy defenses.

• Fang Yue saw that killing humans had increased his comprehension, lifespan, and Anomaly Realm progress, though less than killing anomalies.
• Fang Yue and the young lady waited for Lang Qingyi to leave the Azure Division, and Fang Yue killed him with a single strike.
• Fang Yue ordered a dead soldier to dispose of Lang Qingyi's body and told the young lady they would deny any connection to his death.
• The young lady urged Fang Yue to settle the score with the two Merchant Groups, and he chose the heavily guarded Empty Mountain Merchant Group first.
• The young lady suggested postponing the attack after seeing the Merchant Group's defenses, but Fang Yue declared they would attack that night and leave no enemies alive.