Chapter Summaries

Chu Fan watched a government constable and Fang Qingqing battle powerful Moon Worshipping Sect members, then recognized the woman’s face and remembered how the Fang Family’s congee had once saved him. Though he wanted to repay her kindness, he realized his bow and basic archery could not threaten an opponent who had Transformed into Quality.

• Chu Fan followed the young constable and questioned why the government office had only now investigated the Moon Worshipping Sect.
• The White-robed person ambushed the constable, wounded him, and was driven back by a masked Black-clothed woman.
• A Gray-robed person emerged and battled the Black-clothed woman while the White-robed person kept the constable occupied.
• The Gray-robed person defeated the woman’s defenses and knocked her toward Chu Fan, who recognized her as Second Miss Fang.
• Fang Qingqing covered her face and used a hidden chain to fight back, but the Gray-robed person continued to overpower her.
• Chu Fan remembered that the Fang Family’s congee had saved him, but concluded that his bow and basic archery could not help against a Transformed into Quality opponent.

Chu Fan killed the White-robed person with a close-range strike, then helped Fang Qingqing and the young constable escape the Gray-robed person. Fang Qingqing caught up while carrying the young constable and lifted Chu Fan by his waistband as she ran.

• Chu Fan ambushed the White-robed person and killed him with Adamantine Iron Wrist after sweeping away his afterimages with a saber strike.
• The Gray-robed person overwhelmed Fang Qingqing, so Chu Fan threw the young constable's saber at him and fled toward the Dark Alley.
• The Gray-robed person hurled a bluestone at Chu Fan, but Fang Qingqing caught it with her chains and Chu Fan shattered it with Adamantine Iron Wrist.
• Chu Fan ran at full speed, while Fang Qingqing caught up carrying the young constable and grabbed Chu Fan by the waistband.

Chu Fan escaped with Fang Qingqing and the young constable, claimed the Black Gold Silk Gloves, and refined them to acquire two martial arts. After returning to the Seven Star Gang, he began practicing Ghostly Phantom Body Steps and discovered that it drew on the Primordial Qi accumulating in his body.

• Fang Qingqing carried Chu Fan and the young constable to a courtyard, where Chu Fan demanded that the constable hand over the Black Gold Silk Gloves as his spoils.
• Chu Fan left after learning that the gloves were valuable, and Fang Qingqing recognized his saber technique as the Blood Saber Sect's Blood Soul Nine Swords.
• Chu Fan refined the gloves and gained Ghostly Phantom Body Steps and Extreme Night Cold Prison Hand, then realized the White-robed person had been in the Tempering Tendons Realm.
• Chu Fan returned to the Seven Star Gang the next morning, found his injuries had healed, and resolved to buy Zhao Tianxing Precious Plants with silver taken from the Huang Family.
• Chu Fan practiced Ghostly Phantom Body Steps, gained one experience point, and discovered that the Third Stage superior martial art required him to control Primordial Qi.

Chu Fan practiced Ghostly Phantom Body Steps by circulating Primordial Qi, improving his speed and gaining experience before turning his attention to preparing for Tendon Tempering. At lunch, he learned he had been assigned to Zhou Ye’s subordinates, joked that romance would disrupt his cultivation, and refused an order to meet Boss Sun.

• Chu Fan used Primordial Qi to practice Ghostly Phantom Body Steps, creating a brief phantom image and raising the skill’s progress to 19/100.
• Chu Fan decided to ask Instructor Cao about medicines and guidance for beginning Tendon Tempering.
• The Short Fat Youth told Chu Fan that Incense Master Zhou had assigned him to Zhou Ye’s subordinates after several Incense Masters competed to claim him.
• When asked how he would react to a beauty confessing her love, Chu Fan said he would kill her to protect his Dao heart, leaving Li Qingxue startled.
• A saber-wielding disciple ordered Chu Fan to meet Boss Sun, but Chu Fan told him to have Boss Sun come to the dining hall instead.

Chu Fan fought Sun Zixuan and his followers after they surrounded him outside the dining hall, defeating them decisively and forcing Sun Zixuan to eat dirt. He left the crowd too frightened to challenge him.

• Sun Zixuan left the dining hall after Chu Fan refused to meet him, and a group of followers surrounded Chu Fan outside.
• Chu Fan knocked down the follower who shoved the Short Fat Youth, then sent Sun Zixuan and two men flying with a kick.
• Chu Fan used the Twelve Forms Boxing to defeat the remaining attackers in a few breaths.
• Chu Fan pressed Sun Zixuan's face into the dirt and mocked him while Sun Zixuan's followers stayed back.
• Sun Zixuan tried to retaliate, but Chu Fan kicked him face-first into the ground, and the onlookers lowered their eyes in fear.

Chu Fan confronted Sun Zixuan, then met Incense Master Zhou Tianci at Qingmu Hall and received medicine and an important patrol assignment. He accepted Zhou Tianci’s welcome while remaining wary of the calculating incense master.

• Chu Fan beat Sun Zixuan again after learning that Zhou Tianci had summoned him to Qingmu Hall, and warned him to lower his head whenever they met.
• Chu Fan arrived at Qingmu Hall and watched Zhou Tianci demonstrate precise punching power that eventually shattered a wooden post from within.
• Zhou Tianci welcomed Chu Fan, praised his rapid cultivation and victory over Ling Feng, and ordered the two men to put their conflict behind them.
• Zhou Tianci gave Chu Fan fifty Blood Refining Pills and medicinal herbs for baths as a welcoming gift.
• Zhou Tianci assigned Chu Fan to work under Zhou Ye and patrol Xingning Street, while Chu Fan accepted the task and privately stayed wary of him.

Zhou Tianci planned to use the Moon Worshipping Sect’s crisis to pursue its treasure with the Zhou and Xia Families while keeping the matter from the sect’s upper ranks. Meanwhile, Chu Fan advanced his archery to Major Accomplishment and gave two Blood Refining Pills to the loyal Short Fat Youth.

• Zhou Tianci dismissed concerns about Chu Fan’s loyalty, warned Zhou Ye against meddling in the Moon Worshipping Sect affair, and implied he intended to seek its treasure without informing Hall Master Qin.
• Chu Fan returned to his quarters, set aside the Blood Refining Pills for Tianxing, and practiced until Hundred Steps Pierce Willow Archery reached Major Accomplishment.
• Chu Fan demonstrated his newly perfected archery by shooting an arrow into the Crabapple Tree and frightening away the strange bird.
• Chu Fan went to the Chopping Wood Courtyard to ask where Cao Shi lived and checked whether the Short Fat Youth had been hurt by Sun Zixuan’s men.
• Chu Fan gave the Short Fat Youth two Blood Refining Pills and explained how to use them to improve his Blood Qi.

Chu Fan visited Cao Feng and effortlessly defeated the arrogant Li Xingxuan, demonstrating his mastery of Twelve Forms Boxing. He then revealed that he had already broken through Blood Refining, leaving Cao Feng stunned and asking him to prove his strength.

• Cao Feng introduced Li Xingxuan and asked Chu Fan to teach the boy a lesson for neglecting Twelve Forms Boxing.
• Li Xingxuan attacked Chu Fan, who quickly threw him to the ground and then defeated him again when he charged back.
• Cao Feng rebuked Li Xingxuan for chasing advanced martial arts while neglecting his foundation, and Li Xingxuan left with the two middle-aged men.
• Chu Fan asked Cao Feng for guidance on Tendon Tempering, and Cao Feng urged him to focus on Blood Refining first.
• Chu Fan told Cao Feng that he had broken through Blood Refining that morning, prompting Cao Feng to wrap his fist in Primordial Qi and ask Chu Fan to punch him at full strength.

Chu Fan proved to Cao Feng that he had reached the Blood Refining Realm after only fifty days, and received the Tendon Tempering cultivation manual, pills, and a medicinal bath prescription. After twenty days of cultivation and daily medicinal baths, he neared a breakthrough, while his clashes with the Blood Saber Sect led Zhou Ye to remove him from patrol duty.

• Chu Fan struck Cao Feng with nine strands of fused Blood Qi, convincing Cao Feng that he had entered the Blood Refining Realm.
• Cao Feng gave Chu Fan a Tendon Tempering manual, Leopard Fetus Muscle Changing Pills, and a medicinal bath prescription, then offered to intervene in Chu Fan's dispute with Zhou Ye; Chu Fan declined.
• Chu Fan asked Cao Feng about the forceful fist technique he had seen, and Cao Feng explained the Entering Force Realm and said Zhou Tianci was near Transforming into Quality.
• Chu Fan repeatedly fought the Blood Saber Sect on patrol, and Zhou Ye arranged for someone else to take over his assignment after Chu Fan's companions were badly beaten.
• Chu Fan spent twenty days taking daily medicinal baths and reached 97% Tendon Tempering as he prepared to break through.

Chu Fan endured twenty days of daily tendon-tempering baths and made astonishing progress in his cultivation and martial arts. Zhao Tianxing brought news that a demon had attacked the Blood Saber Sect, leaving Chu Fan wondering whether the Moon Worshipping Sect was behind it and why the government had not intervened.

• Chu Fan reviewed his cultivation progress and learned from Cao Shi that the Wild Ginseng and Great Pill had accelerated his tendon and bone tempering.
• Chu Fan completed another painful medicinal bath, bringing his tendon-tempering breakthrough near and raising his Spiritual Essence by twenty points.
• Zhao Tianxing told Chu Fan that a demon had slaughtered its way through the Blood Saber Sect and killed three hall masters.
• Chu Fan questioned whether the attack was retaliation from the Moon Worshipping Sect and asked where the government office had been.

After a scaled monster devastated the Blood Saber Sect, Chu Fan weighed the growing chaos in Qingyang County and decided the weakened sect was ripe for attack. He left the details of his plan unresolved while preparing to buy medicinal plants and a stronger bow.

• Zhao Tianxing told Chu Fan that a scaled monster had killed three Blood Saber Sect hall masters, badly injured the Deputy Gang Leader, and prompted the authorities to search the Outer City.
• Chu Fan and Zhao Tianxing discussed buying Precious Plants, Zhao Tianxing’s cultivation progress, and Chu Fan’s need for a stronger bow.
• Chu Fan considered how the Blood Saber Sect’s losses could upset the balance among Qingyang County’s gangs and clans.
• Chu Fan resolved to exploit the Blood Saber Sect’s weakness, reasoning that the other powers might move against it and that its members held valuable silver and Spiritual Essence.

Chu Fan planned to target Blood Saber Sect assets while strengthening himself, then broke the Chopping Wood Saber Technique and Running Technique past their limits. The new traits increased his saber speed and agility, leaving him eager to test his transformed abilities.

• Chu Fan assessed the standoff among Qingyang Ancient City's factions and decided to target the Blood Saber Sect's wharf and Herb Garden after improving his strength.
• Chu Fan broke the Chopping Wood Saber Technique for the third time, gaining Knife Swift as Lightning and demonstrating its speed by cutting a piece of wood into four sections.
• Zhao Tianxing visited Chu Fan, discussed the difficulty of cultivating through chopping wood, and practiced the Ninefold Thunderclap Saber in the courtyard.
• Chu Fan ran laps around the Training Ground until the Running Technique reached its limit, then used fifty Spiritual Essence points to break it for the second time.
• Chu Fan gained Light as a Swallow, which greatly improved his speed, agility, and movement across difficult terrain.

Chu Fan tested how the Light as a Swallow trait transformed his movement and then went to Xingning Street to buy Precious Plants. Meanwhile, Zhou Ye planned to seize the weakened Blood Saber Sect’s territory, and the chapter left Chu Fan bargaining with Baicao Hall’s shopkeeper over two Wild Ginseng roots.

• Chu Fan discovered that Light as a Swallow let him move without crushing grass and land lightly on a thin branch, then hid his banknotes and headed to the dining hall.
• Zhou Ye decided to attack the weakened Blood Saber Sect and, with Xia Huanhuan’s guidance, settled on targeting Xingning Street’s outskirts.
• Sun Zixuan rushed at Chu Fan on Xingning Street, but Chu Fan struck him with a rear Whip Leg before Sun Zixuan could explain his warning.
• Chu Fan and Zhao Tianxing entered Baicao Hall to buy Precious Plants while Sun Zixuan and his subordinates guarded the entrance.
• The shopkeeper presented two Wild Ginseng roots and demanded twenty-three hundred taels, but Chu Fan pointed out their flaws and offered eight hundred taels for both.

Chu Fan scouted the Blood Saber Sect’s Fishing Dock and confronted Hong Kui, a fisherman who had once mistreated him. When Qi Shan arrived and resumed abusing the local fishers, Chu Fan attacked him and left him helpless in front of the crowd.

• Chu Fan bought two stalks of mountain ginseng at Baicao Hall for one thousand taels and gave one to Zhao Tianxing.
• Chu Fan left Xingning Street, dismissed Sun Zixuan, and traveled to Fishing Dock to assess the Blood Saber Sect’s strength and the area’s escape routes.
• Hong Kui recognized Chu Fan at the wharf, learned that Chu Fan had joined the Seven Star Gang, and fled when Chu Fan asked if he wanted to come along.
• A Blood Saber Sect member beat Hong Kui and Master Hong, seized their fish, and took over their market spot while the crowd watched silently.
• Qi Shan recognized Chu Fan and mocked him, so Chu Fan struck him down and battered him in the mud, breaking several bones as onlookers stared.

After crippling Qi Shan, Chu Fan broke through to the Tendon Tempering Realm and tested the devastating strength of his new Adamantine Iron Legs. He armed himself with a powerful bow and arrows for an attack on the Blood Saber Sect’s dock, while Xia Huanhuan’s map revealed that the Seven Star Gang was also considering the Fishing Dock Pier.

• Chu Fan knocked Qi Shan unconscious, escaped the fish market, and eluded three Blood Saber Sect members pursuing him.
• Chu Fan used his second Break Limit of Twelve Forms Boxing to gain Adamantine Iron Legs, then condensed his ninth strand of Blood Qi and broke through to the Tendon Tempering Realm.
• Chu Fan tested his new strength on a Wo Niu Qinggang Rock boulder, kicking it aside and cracking it through its layers of rhinoceros hide.
• Chu Fan bought a Five Stone Meteor Bow, thirty Black Kite Arrows, and one hundred Purple Bamboo Arrows, preparing to attack the Blood Saber Sect’s dock the next morning.
• Xia Huanhuan showed Zhou Ye and three Minor Leaders a map marking the Fishing Dock Pier, and Zhou Ye objected to targeting it instead of Xingning Street.

Chu Fan and Zhao Tianxing launched a dawn attack on the Blood Saber Sect’s Fishing Dock, where Chu Fan killed dozens of its members and wounded the Tempering Bones Realm leader. When sect members rushed to kill Zhao Tianxing, Chu Fan pursued them across the rooftops and drew his bow on their strongest fighter.

• Xia Huanhuan rejected Zhou Ye’s plan to seize Xingning Street and chose the Fishing Dock as the Seven Star Gang’s target instead.
• Chu Fan tested his new Meteor Bow, then recruited Zhao Tianxing to join him in attacking the Blood Saber Sect’s Fishing Dock.
• Chu Fan and Zhao Tianxing reached the Fishing Dock before dawn, and Chu Fan silently killed the guards while Zhao Tianxing took an archer’s position nearby.
• After a Blood Saber Sect member raised the alarm, Chu Fan fought through the village and wounded its Tempering Bones Realm leader with the Blood Soul Nine Swords.
• Zhao Tianxing’s arrows killed attackers and disrupted the Blood Saber Sect’s encirclement, but several sect members charged toward his hiding place.
• Chu Fan chased the attackers across the rooftops, nocked a Purple Bamboo Arrow in his Meteor Bow, and aimed at their strongest member.

Chu Fan and Zhao Tianxing wiped out the Blood Saber Sect force at the Fishing Dock, killed its Tempering Bones Realm leader, and stole the sect’s gold, silver, and banknotes. As they headed toward Qingyang City, Xia Huanhuan and Zhou Ye learned that the dock had already been raided and abandoned their own plan to seize it.

• Chu Fan and Zhao Tianxing used their arrows and saber to kill the Blood Saber Sect fighters, including the Tempering Bones Realm man, then shot down those who fled.
• Chu Fan and Zhao Tianxing searched the village, found the Blood Saber Sect’s silver vault, and carried away its gold, silver, and banknotes, leaving the heavy copper coins behind.
• Chu Fan and Zhao Tianxing hid the chests in a mountain cave, then took the portable valuables toward Qingyang City.
• Xia Huanhuan led Zhou Ye and three fighters toward the Fishing Dock, but they hid when dozens of Blood Saber Sect riders galloped past them.
• Xia Huanhuan’s group questioned an old fisherman and learned that the dock had been turned into a river of blood, Master Liu had been killed, and the money had been robbed.
• Zhou Ye angrily lamented that someone had beaten him to the dock, while Xia Huanhuan decided the group should withdraw and find another target.

After raiding the Fishing Dock, Chu Fan split the spoils with Zhao Tianxing and planned to strike the Blood Saber Sect’s Herb Garden while the sect was weakened. He defeated Li Xingxuan, won his silver in a series of trick questions, and broke Hundred Steps Pierce Willow Archery’s limit, gaining the Tracking trait.

• Chu Fan and Zhao Tianxing counted the Fishing Dock’s loot, divided the silver notes and gold bars, and agreed to stay with the Seven Star Gang while the Blood Saber Sect faced pressure from rival forces.
• Chu Fan proposed raiding the Blood Saber Sect’s Herb Garden and headed out to practice archery, while Zhao Tianxing considered buying Black Kite Arrows.
• Chu Fan encountered Li Qingxue and Li Xingxuan in the woods, defeated Li Xingxuan in a fight, then won more silver from him with trick sentence-repetition games.
• Chu Fan practiced archery until night, accumulated enough experience to reach the Perfection limit, and spent Spiritual Essence to break through Hundred Steps Pierce Willow Archery and gain the Tracking trait.

Chu Fan perfected Extreme Night Cold Prison Hand and reflected on how his close-combat skills and Tracking archery had grown stronger. As he prepared to join Zhao Tianxing in seizing the Herb Garden, he rejected Master Hong and Hong Zhen’s attempt to reconcile and brought a feast home for his family.

• Chu Fan demonstrated Extreme Night Cold Prison Hand’s penetrating cold, then practiced until the skill reached Perfection.
• Chu Fan tested his Tracking arrows on the strange bird and concluded that his improved archery could make escape nearly impossible for a fleeing enemy.
• Chu Fan and Zhao Tianxing left the Seven Star Gang branch as fighting spread across Qingyang Ancient City, and Chu Fan arranged to meet Zhao Tianxing outside the North Gate.
• Master Hong and Hong Zhen came to Chu Fan’s home with gifts, but Zhao Hu confronted them over their past mistreatment of Chu Fan.
• Chu Fan told Master Hong and Hong Zhen that their debts were settled and ordered them to leave, then brought roast chicken, roast duck, and Braised Beef inside for Little Doubao and his family.

Chu Fan urged Zhao Hu’s family to move to the safer Inner City, then joined Zhao Tianxing to raid a Blood Saber Sect herb garden. After discovering Fang Qingqing and her companion battling a wounded hall master and his disciples, Chu Fan entered the fight from the cliff, and the chapter ended as he aimed a Moon Eclipse arrow at the hall master.

• Chu Fan gave Zhao Hu’s family two hundred taels and urged them to move to the Inner City for their safety.
• Chu Fan and Zhao Tianxing climbed to a cliff overlooking the herb garden and found two black-clothed intruders fighting Blood Saber Sect disciples.
• Chu Fan recognized Fang Qingqing among the intruders and realized that she, her companion, and the wounded Blood Saber Sect hall master were all experts who had transformed into Quality.
• Chu Fan told Zhao Tianxing to stay on the cliff, then used his bow to kill several Blood Saber Sect disciples and crushed the throat of a man who climbed up to attack him.
• Chu Fan drew a Black Kite Arrow and, as Fang Qingqing tangled the hall master’s arm with her chain, shifted his aim and unleashed Moon Eclipse · Piercing Kill.