Chapter Summaries

Key Plot Points and Events

• Old Ghost Chen Xing and an old man discuss the current state of their sects and the upcoming battle.
• Lu Yuan, an Eighth-tier Saint Star Position expert, arrives at the Seven Luminaries Sect and challenges Qin Shaofeng.
• Qin Shaofeng and Lu Yuan engage in a battle, with Qin Shaofeng using his Ghost Three Slashes technique and Lu Yuan using his Hundred Battles Art.

Character Developments

• Old Ghost Chen Xing remains confident in Qin Shaofeng's abilities despite the disparity in cultivation levels.
• Lu Yuan, initially arrogant, shows surprise at Qin Shaofeng's resilience and combat power.

Significant Themes

• The importance of cultivation level and combat power in battle.
• The dynamics of power and status within sects.

Character Interactions

• Old Ghost Chen Xing and the old man discuss their sects' mergers and the upcoming battle, revealing their differing views on Qin Shaofeng's capabilities.
• Qin Shaofeng and Lu Yuan engage in a battle, with Qin Shaofeng showing resilience despite the cultivation gap, and Lu Yuan showing surprise at Qin Shaofeng's abilities.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Qin Shaofeng and Lu Yuan engage in a intense battle.
• Lu Yuan is on the verge of breaking through to the next cultivation stage during the fight.
• The disciples of the Seven Luminaries Sect watch and comment on the battle, expressing their disbelief at Qin Shaofeng's audacity and skill.

Character Developments

• Lu Yuan: Realizes the true extent of Qin Shaofeng's power, feels immense pressure, and is pushed to the brink of a breakthrough.
• Qin Shaofeng: Demonstrates the power of his God-grade Martial Skill, "Ghost Three Slashes," and his unique ability, "Lightning Thousand Flash." He becomes increasingly anxious as he senses the approaching experts from the Seven Luminaries Sect.

Significant Themes

• Power dynamics: The battle highlights the power imbalance between the two fighters, with Lu Yuan initially underestimating Qin Shaofeng, and Qin Shaofeng realizing the true extent of Lu Yuan's power.
• Cultivation breakthroughs: The theme of cultivation breakthroughs is emphasized, with Lu Yuan's impending breakthrough potentially shifting the balance of the fight.
• Perception vs. reality: The disciples of the Seven Luminaries Sect initially underestimate Qin Shaofeng, only to be surprised by his skill and audacity.

Character Interactions

• Qin Shaofeng vs. Lu Yuan: The two engage in a tense and powerful battle, with each pushing the other to their limits.
• The disciples of the Seven Luminaries Sect vs. Qin Shaofeng: The disciples watch the battle, initially mocking Qin Shaofeng, but later expressing surprise and amusement at his performance and the potential consequences of Lu Yuan's breakthrough.

Qin Shaofeng faced Lu Yuan as Lu Yuan began breaking through to the Ninth-tier Saint Star Position, while Old Ghost Chen Xing and Ke Wuming held off the Seven Luminaries Sect patriarchs. Qin Shaofeng unleashed a mass attack on Lu Yuan, and the chapter ended as the strikes landed.

• Ke Wuming offered to help Qin Shaofeng, but Old Ghost Chen Xing told him to watch and claimed Qin Shaofeng still had hidden trump cards.
• Old Ghost Chen Xing’s confidence unsettled the two Seven Luminaries Sect patriarchs, who continued facing him and Ke Wuming.
• Qin Shaofeng decided to exploit Lu Yuan’s weakened mobility during his breakthrough and secretly released snake venom toward the onlookers.
• Lu Yuan challenged Qin Shaofeng to attack, boasting that his breakthrough-enhanced defense could withstand even Ninth Grade experts.
• Qin Shaofeng used Ghost Three Slashes, Second Slash: Twin Slashes, then unleashed Hundred Ghosts Night Parade with his Lightning Thousand Flash War Shadows, striking Lu Yuan amid cries and clashing sounds.

Qin Shaofeng killed Lu Yuan with a devastating flurry of slashes, destroying his Storage Bag in the process. As Old Ghost Chen Xing fought the remaining experts, poison spread through the Seven Luminaries Sect, and Qin Shaofeng revealed himself among the fallen disciples.

• Qin Shaofeng unleashed more than three hundred slashes and minced Lu Yuan, but his attack also shattered Lu Yuan's Storage Bag and its contents.
• The onlookers realized Qin Shaofeng's ultimate move had produced a hundred attacking figures, while Old Ghost Chen Xing taunted the other fighters and attacked a Ninth-tier Saint Star Position expert.
• Old Ghost Chen Xing's opponent found green poison in his qi and blood, and many Seven Luminaries Sect disciples collapsed as the poison spread.
• Qin Shaofeng appeared among the fallen disciples, and Old Ghost Chen Xing laughed as the sect's elders watched their disciples suffer.

Qin Shaofeng confronted the Seven Luminaries Sect’s survivors after his fire destroyed its forbidden grounds and his forces killed thousands. He left five poisoned Core Disciples alive to reveal the location of the sect’s secret treasure vault, then brought out Ran Zun to intimidate them.

• Qin Shaofeng warned Old Ghost Chen Xing and the Seven Luminaries Sect elders that his fire had burned down their forbidden grounds, prompting one elder to attack him.
• Old Ghost Chen Xing wounded the attacking elder while Qin Shaofeng harvested the poisoned disciples and spared the five strongest survivors.
• Qin Shaofeng demanded that the five survivors reveal the secret treasure vault’s location in exchange for their lives.
• Qin Shaofeng reminded the survivors of his Villain Ranking reputation and threatened them with his methods when they refused to answer.
• Qin Shaofeng introduced Ran Zun as his shadow and began collecting Storage Bags.

Qin Shaofeng learned that Chu Huan had been pursued by the Xuan Yin Sect and rushed to help Ke Wuming defeat a Ninth-tier Saint Star Position expert. His attack badly wounded the patriarch but failed to kill him, leaving the enemy convinced Qin Shaofeng could not repeat his secret art at will.

• Ran Zun reported that the Seven Luminaries Sect's treasure hoards were in three mountains, while Qin Shaofeng had already looted the Core Land's ordinary items.
• Ran Zun revealed that the Seven Luminaries Sect and Tianxiang Sect had diverted most of their forces to help the Xuan Yin Sect capture Chu Huan about a month earlier.
• Qin Shaofeng ordered the group to withdraw and urged Old Ghost Chen Xing and Ke Wuming to finish their fights quickly.
• Qin Shaofeng joined Ke Wuming's battle and used Twin Slashes—Hundred Ghosts Night Parade against the Ninth-tier Saint Star Position expert.
• The old man survived behind numerous defensive treasures, though Qin Shaofeng's attack left him with severe wounds, and he taunted Qin Shaofeng for being unable to repeat his secret art.

Qin Shaofeng and his companions escaped the burning Seven Luminaries Sect and learned from Jin Zheng Tian that Chu Huan had drawn the Xuan Yin Sect into the Four Symbols Sect’s conflict. As they headed toward the sect’s borders, a battered group of powerful women arrived in Tian Lian Mountain, where an angry voice ordered them to rise.

• Qin Shaofeng ordered Ke Wuming to kill a Ninth-tier Saint Star Position elder, and Ke Wuming and Old Ghost Chen Xing then killed another expert together.
• Qin Shaofeng, Ke Wuming, and Old Ghost Chen Xing joined Zhao Ziyu outside the Core Land and hurried away as Seven Luminaries Sect experts raised alarm.
• The group traveled toward the Xuan Yin Sect with Zhao Ziyu carrying the captured Great Elder Jin Zheng Tian.
• Zhao Ziyu interrogated Jin Zheng Tian, who revealed that the Xuan Yin Sect had submitted to the Four Symbols Sect and that its forces had been sent to encircle Chu Huan after his latest major move.
• More than three hundred bedraggled women, including Heavenly Venerate Realm and Saint Star Position experts, fled into Tian Lian Mountain and collapsed when they believed the danger had passed.
• An incomparably furious voice ordered the women to get up before they could rest.

Chu Huan fled the Xuan Yin Sect with Liu Jialin and hundreds of women after Old Ancestor Ying Yue tried to kill him, and they sought refuge near a tomb estate in Tian Lian Mountain. Meanwhile, Qin Shaofeng and his companions reached the Xuan Yin Sect to find out what had happened, leaving Qin Shaofeng and Ke Wuming preparing to investigate.

• Chu Huan urged his exhausted companions to keep moving toward a nearby tomb estate, recalling that more than five thousand people had died during their escape.
• The women accompanying Chu Huan included Liu Jialin, Old Ancestor Ying Yue's granddaughter, whose involvement with him had sparked the conflict that drove them from the Xuan Yin Sect.
• Old Ancestor Ying Yue attacked after discovering Chu Huan had taken Liu Jialin into his harem, but Liu Jialin and the other women helped Chu Huan escape.
• Qin Shaofeng, Old Ghost Chen Xing, Zhao Ziyu, and Ke Wuming arrived at the Xuan Yin Sect's mountain gate after two days of travel.
• Qin Shaofeng said he and Ke Wuming would enter the Xuan Yin Sect to gather information.

Qin Shaofeng and Ke Wuming arrived at the Xuan Yin Sect to deliver birthday gifts to Old Ancestor Lang Yue and found the sect in disrepair. Ke Wuming charmed the two gate guards into letting them enter and giving them a token, while they directed the pair to the Criminal Affairs Hall.

• Qin Shaofeng, Zhao Ziyu, and Old Ghost Chen Xing noticed the Xuan Yin Sect's damaged mountain gate and wondered how badly the sect had declined.
• Qin Shaofeng and Ke Wuming approached the gate, where two female disciples challenged them.
• Ke Wuming introduced himself as Ke Ming and Qin Shaofeng as Shao Feng, claiming they had come from Tiandang Sect to deliver birthday gifts.
• The two guards became infatuated with Ke Wuming and discussed recruiting him into the Xuan Yin Sect, while Qin Shaofeng watched.
• One guard gave Ke Wuming her master's token and told the pair to follow the main road to the Criminal Affairs Hall, where the Law Enforcement Elder was the only elder present.

Ke Wuming and Qin Shaofeng entered the Xuan Yin Sect and decided to plunder it while pursuing the Enforcement Elder. At the Law Enforcement Hall, a guard recognized Qin Shaofeng as a member of the Seven Stars Sect and attacked him, demanding that he repay her son's death.

• Ke Wuming and Qin Shaofeng passed the gate guards and learned that the Xuan Yin Sect's defenses made a direct assault difficult.
• Qin Shaofeng proposed exploiting their entry to plunder the sect, and he and Ke Wuming split up to pursue their targets.
• Ke Wuming headed for the sect's treasure vaults while Qin Shaofeng went to capture the Enforcement Elder.
• Qin Shaofeng reached the Law Enforcement Hall, where a guard refused to announce him and then recognized him as Qin Shaofeng of the Seven Stars Sect.
• The guard drew her sword and attacked Qin Shaofeng, accusing him of killing her son.

Qin Shaofeng tried to enter the Xuan Yin Sect’s Law Enforcement Hall but was confronted by Liu Qianmei, who recognized him as the killer of her son, Liu Li. The chapter left the group doubting her claims as Lanlan tried to calm her, despite Liu Qianmei insisting Qin Shaofeng was truly there.

• Liu Qianmei accused Qin Shaofeng of killing her son, Liu Li, during the Seven Stars Sect tournament and raged that she had once hunted him at the Myriad Gods Tomb of the Shining Stars.
• Qin Shaofeng admitted killing Liu Li and mocked Liu Qianmei, while the people restraining her assumed he was only provoking a madwoman.
• Qin Shaofeng asked the group to let him enter the Law Enforcement Hall, but they hesitated because Liu Qianmei's outburst had caused a commotion.
• Lanlan came out of the Law Enforcement Hall and tried to calm Liu Qianmei, saying Qin Shaofeng was now the Vice Sect Master of Chasing Stars Sect and was unlikely to come to the Xuan Yin Sect.
• Liu Qianmei insisted Qin Shaofeng was real and told Lanlan they had been husband and wife for ten days, leaving Qin Shaofeng stunned.

Qin Shaofeng entered the Xuan Yin Sect’s Law Enforcement Hall seeking the Enforcement Elder and demanded to know where the sect kept its treasures. After beating and threatening her, he forced her to reveal that the treasures were in the Sect Treasury, which required three keys to open.

• Lanlan recognized Elder Liu’s token and led Qin Shaofeng into the Law Enforcement Hall despite Liu Qianmei’s attempts to expose him.
• Qin Shaofeng followed Lanlan to the Enforcement Elder’s room and attacked the half-dressed elder when she greeted him suggestively.
• Qin Shaofeng demanded to know where the Xuan Yin Sect kept its treasures and threatened the Enforcement Elder with the torture devices outside.
• The Enforcement Elder told Qin Shaofeng that the treasures were in the Sect Treasury and that three keys were needed to open it.

Qin Shaofeng learned that Chu Huan had escaped to Tian Lian Mountain and obtained a rough map of the route. After discovering the Xuan Yin Sect’s brutal torture of Chu Huan’s allies, he attacked the Enforcement Elder and her enforcer, then emerged into the Law Enforcement Hall as the prisoners watched.

• Qin Shaofeng learned that the Xuan Yin Sect treasury required three keys and that more than three thousand of Chu Huan’s accomplices had been captured, with over half dying under torture.
• The Enforcement Elder told Qin Shaofeng that Chu Huan had escaped to Tian Lian Mountain after using Old Ancestor Ying Yue’s granddaughter to threaten suicide, then drew him a rough map.
• Lanlan entered, saw the injured Enforcement Elder, and alerted the man who had taken over the punishments.
• The man accused Qin Shaofeng of harming Lanlan and lunged at him, so Qin Shaofeng kicked him to death.
• Qin Shaofeng crushed the Enforcement Elder’s limbs and injured her dantian before leaving the room as Lanlan recoiled in fear.
• Qin Shaofeng entered the Law Enforcement Hall, where the disciples and prisoners reacted to the commotion, and a woman demanded to know who had screamed.

Qin Shaofeng revealed his Saint Star Position cultivation in the Law Enforcement Hall and killed the enforcers who had tortured the women there. After freeing them, he learned that Chu Huan's other companions were imprisoned in the Bone Corrosion Prison and set out to find them.

• Qin Shaofeng crushed a teacup and used its shards to wound the enforcers and free the tortured prisoners.
• The guards rushed into the Law Enforcement Hall and realized Qin Shaofeng was a Saint Star Position expert.
• Liu Qianmei lunged at Qin Shaofeng, and he killed her with a slap.
• Qin Shaofeng killed the remaining enforcers and told the freed women they could take revenge on the Enforcement Elder.
• Qin Shaofeng asked where the other prisoners were, and a woman said they were held in the Bone Corrosion Prison and offered to lead him there.

Qin Shaofeng entered Bone Corrosion Prison and rescued the women held there, learning that Chu Huan was in grave danger. With Ke Wuming and the recovering women able to handle the remaining Xuan Yin Sect threats, Qin Shaofeng prepared to leave and save Chu Huan.

• A wounded woman led Qin Shaofeng to the hidden entrance of Bone Corrosion Prison and warned him about its hallucinogenic drugs.
• Qin Shaofeng opened the cells and rescued more than a thousand women from the prison.
• Ke Wuming emerged with the women Qin Shaofeng had left at the Law Enforcement Hall and confirmed the Xuan Yin Sect’s remaining forces no longer posed a serious threat.
• Qin Shaofeng told the women he had to leave to save Chu Huan, and they urged him to hurry while promising to protect themselves.

Qin Shaofeng and Ke Wuming left the Xuan Yin Sect after rescuing Chu Huan’s women, then joined Old Ghost Chen Xing and Zhao Ziyu to hurry toward Chu Huan’s location. At the foot of Tian Lian Mountain, Ran Zun explained how his assassin training let him keep pace while concealed, leaving the others impressed by Qin Shaofeng’s ability to command him.

• The women urged Qin Shaofeng and Ke Wuming to rescue Chu Huan and postpone searching for the Xuan Yin Sect’s treasure hoard until they obtained its three keys.
• Qin Shaofeng and Ke Wuming left the sect, and Ke Wuming killed the two female disciples guarding its gate.
• Old Ghost Chen Xing and Zhao Ziyu joined them, and Qin Shaofeng explained that he had rescued more than seventeen hundred of Chu Huan’s women from a poison pit.
• The four men sped toward Chu Huan’s location, while Ran Zun kept pace from Qin Shaofeng’s shadow despite his Fifth Grade Saint Star Position cultivation.
• At the foot of Tian Lian Mountain, Ran Zun told Old Ghost Chen Xing that his assassin training emphasized speed and concealment, astonishing the three experts.

Qin Shaofeng dismissed concerns about the Carefree Gate and led his group through Tian Lian Mountain, where Ran Zun used the Myriad Stars Chessboard to locate Chu Huan's party. The group hurried to their position as Chu Huan's dwindling band faced another pursuer, and Lingling stayed behind to hold them off.

• Qin Shaofeng said the group would head to the Great Northern Wasteland and later return to fight the Carefree Gate, while Ran Zun imagined how powerful their alliance would become.
• Qin Shaofeng's group crossed Tian Lian Mountain despite the Forbidden Martial Power suppressing Old Ghost Chen Xing and the other experts.
• Qin Shaofeng told Ran Zun to scout, and Ran Zun expanded the Myriad Stars Chessboard's range until it revealed Chu Huan's group, then nearly collapsed from the effort.
• Qin Shaofeng supported Ran Zun, gave him a medicinal pill, and ordered Third Senior Brother to carry him as they rushed toward the group.
• Lingling stopped to hold off the pursuers and urged Lin'er to take Chu Huan away, as only seventeen members of the original group remained.

Lingling swallowed the last Corpse Demon Pill and transformed into a poisonous beast to hold off the pursuing Seven Luminaries Sect. As she charged after them, Chu Huan and his companions found their escape routes blocked by several thousand forces from the Xuan Yin Sect and Tianxiang Sect.

• Lingling told Chu Huan to flee, swallowed the Corpse Demon Pill, and transformed into a green-skinned, black-furred beast.
• Qing Tiantian ordered the Seven Luminaries Sect to retreat rather than sacrifice its experts to Lingling's poison and rising strength.
• Lingling reached the Seven Luminaries Sect's pursuers and clawed two disciples, whose wounds bubbled as they screamed.
• Qing Tiantian realized Lingling's strength had approached that of a Seventh-tier Saint Star Position expert, and his people scattered.
• As Lingling pursued the fleeing Seven Luminaries Sect, several thousand Xuan Yin Sect and Tianxiang Sect forces blocked Chu Huan's escape routes.

Surrounded by forces from the Three Great Sects, Chu Huan and his remaining companions faced a hopeless battle as Liu Jialin’s grandmother and the Xuan Yin Sect’s leaders argued over her betrayal. Chu Huan concluded they could not hold off the attackers, while the women prepared to sacrifice themselves to help him escape.

• Old Ancestor Ying Yue confronted Liu Jialin and accused her of betraying the Xuan Yin Sect for Chu Huan, whose harem she said numbered seven thousand women.
• Liu Jialin defended Chu Huan, and Old Ancestor Ying Yue was overcome with shock and fury.
• Lian Xintong urged the Xuan Yin Sect to kill Chu Huan and take Liu Jialin back, but Old Ancestor Ying Yue demanded they wait.
• A Fifth Grade Saint Star Position woman told Chu Huan’s companions to use their Blood Burst Pills if the attackers moved against them.
• The women offered to sacrifice themselves to buy Chu Huan time, but Chu Huan said they could not withstand the nearly ten thousand people surrounding them.

Qin Shaofeng and Ran Zun infiltrated the encirclement to assassinate the enemy forces while Old Ghost Chen Xing and Zhao Ziyu slipped inside to protect Chu Huan. Their effort continued as the Seven Luminaries Sect arrived and demanded that the Xuan Yin Sect begin its attack.

• Qin Shaofeng assigned Old Ghost Chen Xing and Zhao Ziyu to sneak in and keep Chu Huan alive, while Ke Wuming waited outside to support their escape.
• Qin Shaofeng and Ran Zun silently entered the crowd and began assassinating the surrounding fighters.
• Qin Shaofeng killed twenty or thirty people and realized that Ran Zun had already slain more than a hundred.
• The Seven Luminaries Sect's Vice Sect Master arrived, complained that over five hundred of his people had died helping the Xuan Yin Sect, and demanded to know why the attack had not begun.