Chapter Summaries

Chu Fan mastered the first stages of the Nine Heavens Wind Control Scripture in the Gale Abyss, then killed two Medicine King Valley cultivators and fled from a powerful woman who came looking for them. After a day and night of pursuit, his Running Technique reached its limit, leaving him poised for another Break Limit.

• Chu Fan reached the Gale Abyss, where a Medicine King Valley girl attacked him with Wind-Thunder Beads after ordering him to leave; he killed her and her grandfather, then took their Sumeru Rings.
• Chu Fan endured repeated failures before drawing the Innate Wind Seed into his Dantian, transforming all thirty-six meridians into Wind Meridians, and beginning to devour Wind Spirits.
• Chu Fan improved his speed with the Nine Heavens Wind Control Scripture and extended the Spirit Array Map’s active time to twenty-five breaths while cultivating at the Gale Abyss.
• A powerful Medicine King Valley woman arrived and questioned Chu Fan about the missing girl and old man; when she tried to take him for investigation, he attacked, then fled into the mountains.
• Chu Fan used his wind control and movement techniques to evade the woman through a prolonged chase, while devouring Wind Spirits and building Running Technique experience.
• After more than a dozen hours of pursuit, Chu Fan’s Running Technique reached its limit and prompted him to spend Spiritual Essence to Break Limit.

Chu Fan broke through to the fourth Break Limit of the Running Technique and used a Stone Forest’s killing intent and damaged formation to turn the tables on Baili Bing. After forcing her to surrender Demonic Marrow Gold and a Seven-Leaf Star Orchid, he returned to the Stone Forest to investigate the remains of the skeletal monster and its concentrated killing intent.

• Chu Fan increased his speed with the fourth Break Limit of the Running Technique and led Baili Bing into a Stone Forest rich in killing intent.
• The Stone Forest’s formation activated, and a powerful Skeleton Monster emerged and attacked Baili Bing while Chu Fan searched for a way out.
• Baili Bing wounded the Skeleton Monster with her ultimate technique, and Chu Fan’s Black Kite Arrow disrupted it long enough for her to destroy it.
• Chu Fan trapped Baili Bing with the Five Tripod Sealing, attacked her with his arrows and saber, and forced her to retreat after the sealing weapon’s power failed.
• Baili Bing offered Demonic Marrow Gold and a Seven-Leaf Star Orchid to settle the grudge, and Chu Fan accepted the treasures before mocking her cultivation and letting her leave.
• Chu Fan returned to the Stone Forest, intending to investigate the monster’s bones and absorb the killing intent there.

Chu Fan escaped a re-forming Skeleton Monster in the Stone Forest, while its creator marked him and Baili Bing with a blood curse. In Qingzhou, the Zhang Family secretly plotted around the Moon Worshipping Sect and Burial Immortal Valley as the Demon Suppression Bureau watched them; Chu Fan reached the city and reunited with Zhao Tianxing, Jiang Yuanfan, and Fatty.

• Chu Fan discovered that the Skeleton Monster was rebuilding itself from scattered bones, escaped its pursuit, and saw it restrained by chains inside the Stone Forest.
• A hidden elder blamed Chu Fan and Baili Bing for damaging his Demon Puppet and sent blood runes after them; Chu Fan felt watched and continued north toward Azure Province.
• Zhang Yanzong and the Zhang Family elders debated Chu Fan and the Demon Suppression Bureau, then Zhang Yanzong revealed the Zhang Family’s Moon Worshipping Sect ties and planned to use news of Burial Immortal Valley to draw out the Key’s holder.
• Leng Qingqiu ordered Zhao Lie, Chen Guanhai, and Li Mubai to watch the Zhang Family carefully, while Chu Fan’s deeds spread through Azure Province in embellished stories.
• Chu Fan cultivated through the night, opened seven more meridians, and reached Qingzhou City, where he reunited with Zhao Tianxing, Jiang Yuanfan, and the now-skinny Fatty.

Chu Fan returned to the Seven Star Gang in Qingzhou, where the disciples welcomed him as their hero and he learned that Yue Mankong had sent him to investigate the powerful Zhang Family. He cultivated through the night to reach Opening Spirit Realm Third Heaven, then tested his strength and resumed training, leaving Li Qingxue amazed by his saber skill.

• Chu Fan arrived at the Seven Star Gang’s new Qingzhou residence, where the disciples and leaders welcomed him, while Deng Rong realized he had once driven Chu Fan away from the Kaishan Boxing Gym.
• Chu Fan told the gang leaders that Yue Mankong had assigned him to investigate the Zhang Family, and he agreed to stay at the gang’s residence before following the Demon Suppression Bureau’s orders.
• Chu Fan concluded that he was being used to stir up Azure Province and that the Demon Suppression Stele might be a key to something hidden there, then focused on cultivating.
• Chu Fan opened sixteen meridians, consumed pills and a Vermilion Fruit, and broke through to Opening Spirit Realm Third Heaven after cultivating through the night.
• Chu Fan tested his new strength by shattering a Black Iron Boulder with Extreme Night Cold Prison Hand, shocking Zhao Tianxing, then practiced Seven Stars Bead Cut as Li Qingxue watched in awe.

Chu Fan cultivated his Spirit Array Map, broke Seven Stars Bead Cut past its limits, and discovered the Mountains and Rivers Map could fuse martial arts. Before he could begin the fusion, Liang Qiu summoned him to face gangs challenging the Seven Star Gang, where Chu Fan defeated Ling Ruoshui with one punch and called for the next challenger.

• Chu Fan expanded his Spirit Array Map's perception to twenty zhang, reviewed his progress to Opening Spirit Realm Fourth Heaven, and went to the Training Ground to practice Seven Stars Bead Cut.
• Li Qingxue, Chen Xuan, and the Cao and Li Clan Elders watched as Chu Fan's saber art broke its limit and gained the trait Overlapping Waves Chasing Stars.
• Chu Fan alternated between Seven Stars Bead Cut, Ninefold Thunderclap Saber, and Blood Soul Nine Swords, and the Mountains and Rivers Map offered to fuse them for 600 Spiritual Essence.
• Liang Qiu interrupted Chu Fan's attempt to fuse the saber arts with news that disciples from the Sky Wolf Gang and other gangs had gathered to challenge him.
• Chu Fan confronted the assembled challengers, invited them to attack together, and knocked Ling Ruoshui down with a single Bear Form Crushing Fist before telling the others, "Next."

Chu Fan defeated the factions that challenged him, then fused several martial arts into the Blood Prison Nine Calamities Saber and the Twelve True Forms Boxing while advancing the Extreme Night Cold Prison Hand. After Li Qingxue proved she could withstand the saber art’s Baleful Intent, Zhang Ling'er learned of Chu Fan’s victories and planned to use Medicine King Valley to cut off the Seven Star Gang’s supplies.

• Chu Fan defeated Ling Ruoshui with one punch and cut Zhan Fei’s wrist with a faster saber strike, then drove the hostile factions from the Seven Star Gang’s Training Ground by invoking his Demon Suppression Guard status.
• Chu Fan fused four saber arts into the Blood Prison Nine Calamities Saber, trained it to Minor Accomplishment, and advanced the Extreme Night Cold Prison Hand to its Third Break Limit, gaining the Flowing Frost Domain trait.
• Chu Fan fused the Twelve Forms Boxing, Extreme Night Cold Prison Hand, and Netherworld Yellow Spring Finger into the Twelve True Forms Boxing and began practicing it.
• Li Qingxue brought Chu Fan and Zhao Tianxing food, asked to learn the Seven Stars Bead Cut, and discovered she could absorb Baleful Intent after sharing Tianxing’s Wild Ginseng with Chu Fan.
• Chu Fan let Li Qingxue test the Blood Prison Nine Calamities Saber’s Baleful Intent and promised to teach her the complete art once he had refined it.
• Zhang Ling'er learned that Chu Fan had defeated Ling Ruoshui and Zhan Fei, then decided to ask Baili Bing of Medicine King Valley to cut off the Seven Star Gang’s supply of pills and Precious Plants.

Chu Fan broke through to Opening Spirit Realm Fifth Heaven, practiced the Twelve True Forms Boxing, and ordered a costly Demon Blade at Tiangong Workshop. While Mo Yunzi waited in Qingzhou City to hunt him, Baili Bing rode out to warn Medicine King Valley after Ye Chang'an decided to restrict the Seven Star Gang’s purchases; the chapter ended with Chu Fan training as his boxing skill neared Major Accomplishment.

• Chu Fan opened his final meridian, advanced to Opening Spirit Realm Fifth Heaven, and discovered that his strength and Extreme Night Cold Prison Hand had greatly improved.
• Chu Fan practiced the Twelve True Forms Boxing, gained more than 250 experience in one morning, and later raised its progress to 866/1000.
• Mo Yunzi waited at Moon Gazing Pavilion to pursue Chu Fan, unaware that he sat nearby with Zhao Tianxing, Fatty, and Jiang Yuanfan.
• Ye Chang'an decided Medicine King Pavilion would restrict the Seven Star Gang’s purchases at Zhang Ling'er’s request, despite Baili Bing warning him that Chu Fan was a Demon Suppression Guard.
• Baili Bing left Qingzhou City to appeal to Valley Master Baili Nutao, and a black-clothed pursuer began tracking her after she passed through the North City Gate.
• At Tiangong Workshop, Chu Fan secured compensation after a refiner broke his Thunder Saber, then paid 100,000 taels to have a Demon Blade forged from Demonic Marrow Gold and Blood Vein Steel.

Chu Fan cultivated outside Qingzhou City, defeated Mo Yunzi, and forced her to sign a Master-Servant Contract, learning that a powerful demonic cultivator had sent her after him. Meanwhile, Baili Bing warned the Seven Star Gang and the Demon Suppression Bureau that the demonic cultivator was hunting Chu Fan, but they could not locate him before the attacker reached him.

• Chu Fan left Qingzhou City to cultivate where Wind Spirit was abundant, but Mo Yunzi tracked him to Thousand-Ren Cliff and attacked him.
• Chu Fan overcame Mo Yunzi and her Demon Puppet, bound her with the Soul-Locking Chain, and made her sign a Master-Servant Contract.
• Mo Yunzi told Chu Fan that her Yin Demon Sect Martial Uncle had sent her after him because Chu Fan had destroyed his Demon Puppet in the Stone Forest, and Chu Fan resumed cultivating while she stood guard.
• Cao Yan discovered that Qingzhou City's pill shops were refusing to trade with the Seven Star Gang, and he suspected the Zhang Family was behind the blockade.
• Baili Bing arrived at the Seven Star Gang Headquarters wounded and warned that a demonic cultivator was hunting Chu Fan; she revealed that the pursuer had the strength of the second heaven of the Opening Apertures Realm and two equally powerful Demon Puppets.
• The Seven Star Gang and Li Mubai learned that Chu Fan had left the city, but they did not know where he had gone, and Baili Bing's warning left them fearing he was in grave danger.

Chu Fan subdued Mo Yunzi, learned about the threat posed by her senior brother Mo Daozi, and continued cultivating while Qingzhou City searched for him. The chapter ended with Chu Fan’s Ghostly Phantom Body Steps reaching its cultivation limit and a prompt offering to Break Limit.

• Chu Fan cultivated the Nine Heavens Wind Control Scripture as Mo Yunzi watched, then promised to restore her freedom and learned from her how the Nine-Petal Lotus Visualization opened the Sea of Consciousness.
• Chu Fan refined the Nine-Petal Jade Lotus to obtain the Yin Demon Lotus Visualization, and the Green Snake arrived to report that Qingzhou City’s forces were searching for him.
• The Green Snake warned Chu Fan that Mo Daozi, an Opening Apertures Realm expert with two powerful Demon Puppets, might come after him, but Chu Fan said he could handle the threat and questioned Mo Yunzi about her senior brother.
• Chu Fan gave Mo Yunzi a Seven-Leaf Star Orchid to help her recover and break through, then trained his Ghostly Phantom Body Steps while she watched.
• At the Demon Suppression Bureau, the Green Snake reported that Chu Fan was safe and had subdued Mo Yunzi; after learning of Mo Daozi’s bounty, she wanted to urge Chu Fan to claim it.
• Chu Fan continued practicing until his Ghostly Phantom Body Steps reached their limit, and his panel offered a Break Limit using fifty points of Spiritual Essence.

Chu Fan broke through to the Supernatural Power Realm after visualizing the Nine-Petal Jade Lotus, then prepared to confront Mo Daozi. Meanwhile, Zhang Ling'er ordered Tang Yu to keep watch and contact Mo Daozi, while Mo Daozi received a Sound-Transmitting Spirit Butterfly in the mountains.

• Chu Fan tested Ghost Fire Burning Soul, rested in the cave, and became the target of Mo Yunzi's mistaken belief that he was impotent.
• Green Snake and Li Qingxue arrived with food and found Chu Fan beside Mo Yunzi, leading to an awkward exchange before Chu Fan resumed cultivating.
• Chu Fan visualized the Nine-Petal Jade Lotus for five days, opened his Sea of Consciousness, and broke through to the Supernatural Power Realm First Heaven.
• Chu Fan told Li Qingxue and Green Snake to return as he prepared to hunt Mo Daozi, while Zhang Ling'er learned of the pursuit and sent Tang Yu to meet Mo Daozi.
• Mo Daozi, fleeing pursuers after offending Medicine King Valley, received a Yin Demon Sect Sound-Transmitting Spirit Butterfly.

Chu Fan confronted Mo Daozi at a mountain hollow, where Mo Daozi’s pursuers and a demon fighter arrived and turned the encounter into a chaotic battle. Chu Fan defeated and sealed Mo Daozi and the demon, then concealed himself inside the Five Elements Cauldron with Mo Yunzi to recover and deal with the remaining Demon Puppets.

• Mo Daozi dismissed Mo Yunzi’s plea for help, then followed the Soul-Chasing Disk to her hiding place and prepared to attack Chu Fan with two Demon Puppets.
• Three Opening Apertures Realm pursuers confronted Mo Daozi, but Chu Fan revealed his identity as a Demon Suppression Bureau guard and challenged them to leave.
• Mo Daozi tried to escape by attacking Chu Fan, but Chu Fan overwhelmed him and sealed him inside the Five Elements Cauldron.
• The Demon Race Big Man attacked Chu Fan, who defeated and sealed him as well; Liu Qingwu and Hu Bugui restrained the two Demon Puppets and departed.
• Chu Fan asked Mo Yunzi to stand guard, then enclosed himself and the Demon Puppets within the Five Elements Cauldron.

Chu Fan refined Mo Daozi, the Demon Race Big Man, and two powerful Demon Puppet souls into the Ten Thousand Soul Banner, then returned to Qingzhou City with Mo Daozi’s corpse to claim the bounty. Meanwhile, Baili Bing rescued the Seven Star Gang members from the Red Flame Sect, and the chapter ended with Chu Fan announcing Mo Daozi’s death at the Demon Suppression Bureau.

• Chu Fan used the Ten Thousand Soul Banner and the Youdu Soul Refining Technique to subdue four powerful souls, appointing the Demon Race Big Man’s soul as the banner’s main soul.
• Tang Yu arrived at Broken Cliff too late to find Chu Fan, while Chu Fan recovered, searched Mo Daozi’s Sumeru Ring, and learned from the Demon Race Big Man’s memories about a hidden stash.
• Chu Fan gave Green Snake the Moonlight Grass to help her advance, then decided to return to Qingzhou City with Mo Daozi’s corpse and pursue the bounty before seeking the Demon Race Big Man’s hidden cache.
• Gao Dashang, Jiang Yuanfan, and Liang Qiu were beaten and detained by Red Flame Sect disciples for selling Mountain Splitting Fist manuals, but Baili Bing intervened and secured their release.
• Chu Fan noticed the Mountain Splitting Fist being practiced in Qingzhou City and worried that the gang’s sales could provoke powerful local forces.
• Chu Fan returned to the Demon Suppression Bureau and told Li Mubai that he had beaten Mo Daozi to death, then asked where to collect the reward.

Chu Fan returned to the Qingzhou Demon Suppression Bureau with Mo Daozi’s corpse, discussed the Zhang Family investigation with Leng Qingqiu, and reunited with the Seven Star Gang, where Green Snake, Cao Feng, and Zhao Tianxing made breakthroughs. He then pushed Twelve True Forms Boxing past its Perfection limit, gaining the first layer of Indestructible Diamond Body and new defensive abilities, and called Mo Yunzi over to test them.

• Chu Fan presented Mo Daozi’s corpse to Leng Qingqiu, who ordered its identity verified and the bounty collected, then discussed Chu Fan’s role as bait in the investigation of the Zhang Family and the Moon Worshipping Sect.
• Chu Fan returned to the Seven Star Gang, thanked Baili Bing for warning the gang and rescuing its members, and heard her promise to help against Zhang Ling’er’s pressure and lend him Medicine King Valley texts.
• Green Snake broke through to the Mysterious Demon realm, Cao Feng entered the Supernatural Power Realm, and Zhao Tianxing reached the Opening Spirit Realm after finding a strange, foul-smelling object in a ditch.
• Chu Fan brought Twelve True Forms Boxing to its Perfection limit and spent 200 Spiritual Essence to Break Limit, unlocking the first layer of Indestructible Diamond Body along with Immovable as a Mountain and Pillow the Sea as Defense.
• Chu Fan formed a defensive aura through his boxing stance and called Mo Yunzi over, telling her to slash him.

At Wangxian Tower, Hu Bugui rescued Green Snake and White Snake from the Blazing Sun Gang, while Chu Fan tested the immense defense of his newly strengthened Indestructible Diamond Body. After learning how the Blazing Sun Gang had insulted the sisters, Chu Fan stormed its headquarters, defeated its hall masters, and challenged Zhang Ling'er and Ye Chang'an.

• Xia Yao and Zhang Heng insulted Green Snake and White Snake at Wangxian Tower, then captured them with a Primordial Qi hand and a golden rope until Hu Bugui intervened.
• Chu Fan tested his body against Mo Yunzi’s iron, Spirit, and Profound Weapons, discovering that his new Pillow the Sea as Defense trait grew strongest when he lay against the ground.
• Li Qingxue saw Chu Fan practicing in an unusual posture and worried that his fusion with the Resentful Spirit had contaminated him.
• After hearing how the Blazing Sun Gang had treated the sisters, Chu Fan led them and Mo Yunzi to its headquarters, claiming authority as a Demon Suppression Guard and defeating Xia Yao and Zhang Heng.
• Gang Leader Sheng Yang offered Chu Fan a Blood Jade Ginseng and Star Ink Iron to end the dispute, and Chu Fan also took the hall masters’ weapons.
• Chu Fan told Sheng Yang to warn Zhang Ling'er and Ye Chang'an that he would retaliate for the Seven Star Gang’s blacklisting.

Chu Fan encountered Xiao Ziyi’s unpredictable episodes at the Qingzhou Demon Suppression Bureau and learned that Pollution drove powerful cultivators toward madness, while even the Martial Saint Hall could only suppress it. After Chu Fan and Li Mubai agreed to draw out the Moon Worshipping Sect and the Zhang Family, a masked attacker ambushed Ye Chang'an in Lingyou Valley and began overpowering his guards.

• Xiao Ziyi mistook Chu Fan and Li Qingxue for intruders, struck Chu Fan twice with her Demon Training Rod, and alternated between confusion and lucidity before vanishing toward the north.
• The Demon Suppression Guards told Chu Fan that Xiao Ziyi suffered from Pollution, which could only be delayed or suppressed, and Chu Fan worried that the same corruption had driven his parents mad.
• Chu Fan told Li Mubai he intended to move against the Moon Worshipping Sect and the Zhang Family, and Li Mubai promised the Demon Suppression Bureau’s full cooperation.
• Ye Chang'an learned that Zhang Ling'er had not honored her bargain, then received a report that he would leave the city during the hour of the Rooster.
• Chu Fan crushed a note warning him of Ye Chang'an’s departure, left Mo Yunzi behind, and went out alone as Ye Chang'an’s carriage entered Lingyou Valley.
• A masked Black Robe Man claiming to represent the Moon Worshipping Sect attacked Ye Chang'an and defeated both of his guards, while Ye Chang'an fled through the valley.

Chu Fan survived Princess Zhaohua’s devastating sword strike and gained Ye Chang’an’s Sumeru Ring and Shadow Invisible Needle, which he combined with his Falling Sun Bow to create an undetectable arrow. Back at the Seven Star Gang’s residence, he broke Moon Eclipse Arrow through its third limit and gained the Extermination trait, then turned to studying Medicine King Valley classics to keep improving.

• Disguised as a Moon Worshipping Sect fiend, Chu Fan defeated Ye Chang’an, took his Sumeru Ring, and was mistaken for a dead enemy after Princess Zhaohua’s sword buried him beneath Lingyou Valley.
• Chu Fan emerged alive from the Five Elements Cauldron and told the Demon Suppression Guards he would collect the cost of surviving Princess Zhaohua’s sword from her.
• Back at the Seven Star Gang’s residence, Chu Fan refined the Shadow Invisible Needle and tested it as an arrow shot from the Falling Sun Bow, piercing a target without being seen or sensed.
• Chu Fan trained Moon Eclipse Arrow with Zhao Tianxing while Mo Yunzi watched, then broke the skill through its third limit and gained the Extermination trait.
• Chu Fan considered the limits of his ability to challenge powerful opponents and began studying the classics Baili Bing had brought from Medicine King Valley.

Ling Kongyu clashed with Zhang Yanzong over the Moon Worshipping Sect’s Burial Immortal Valley plan, then ordered Qian Ning to recruit Chu Fan as her disciple. Chu Fan broke through Literacy Technique’s fourth limit and was trapped by a Moon Worshipping Sect woman, whom he exposed inside her magical treasure; she began unleashing her true strength.

• Ling Kongyu confronted Zhang Yanzong in the Zhang Family’s secret chamber, warned that his Burial Immortal Valley plan would fail, and left after learning neither of them had intercepted Medicine King Valley’s people.
• Ling Kongyu told Qian Ning she would let Zhang Yanzong’s plan collapse before stepping in, then ordered her to recruit Chu Fan into the Moon Worshipping Sect as Ling Kongyu’s Personal Disciple.
• Chu Fan broke through Literacy Technique’s fourth limit, gained the All Things Are Teachers trait, and advanced Shenxiao Golden Bell Shield to Major Accomplishment by testing it against the Extinction Quicksand Technique.
• Wang Meng resolved to challenge Chu Fan at the Demon Suppression Bureau, while Chu Fan unknowingly entered a spatial trap on an empty street and was invited to join the Moon Worshipping Sect.
• Chu Fan evaded the trap’s great sword and endlessly regenerating ghostly hands, traced their source to a stone house, and forced the Black-Robed Woman controlling the magical treasure to reveal herself.
• The Black-Robed Woman recognized Chu Fan’s skill and began releasing a pressure that shook the mirror space.

Chu Fan defeated a powerful Moon Worshipping Sect sorcerer inside the Myriad Phenomena Mirror, refined her soul, and uncovered a conspiracy involving the Zhang Family, the Burial Immortal Valley, and two Sacrifice God Envoys. After reporting the threat to Leng Qingqiu, he stunned the Demon Suppression Bureau by defeating Wang Meng in a brief spar despite his much lower cultivation realm.

• The Black-Robed Woman trapped Chu Fan in the Myriad Phenomena Mirror, but he identified her fixed teleportation points and wounded her soul with Black Kite Arrows.
• Chu Fan endured the Black-Robed Woman's Nether Sword Prison, shattered her defensive tower, killed her, and absorbed her soul into the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.
• Chu Fan read the Black-Robed Woman's memories and learned that Ling Kongyu and Zhang Yanzong were Moon Worshipping Sect Sacrifice God Envoys plotting the Burial Immortal Valley Plan.
• Chu Fan escaped the mirror, refined the Myriad Phenomena Mirror, and reported the Black-Robed Woman and her intelligence to Leng Qingqiu, who reacted furiously to the Zhang Family's plan.
• Wang Meng challenged Chu Fan to spar at the Demon Suppression Bureau, and Chu Fan revealed that he was only at Supernatural Power Realm Second Heaven.
• Chu Fan used Ghost Fire Burning Soul and Twelve True Forms Boxing to defeat Wang Meng in three breaths, leaving the assembled guards and captains astonished.

Chu Fan broke the limits of the Extinction Quicksand Technique and Shenxiao Golden Bell Shield, gaining powerful offensive and defensive traits. The Demon Suppression Bureau ordered him to join an assault on the Blood Shadow Sect, and he prepared for the coming campaign as the conflict with the Xia Family escalated.

• Chu Fan used 20 Spiritual Essence to break the Extinction Quicksand Technique's limit, gaining Crystallization Solidification and testing its power with a crystalline sand sword and shield.
• Chu Fan demonstrated that the crystallized sand could split a Black Iron Boulder and withstand Li Qingxue's Blood Prison Nine Calamities Saber strike.
• Chu Fan accepted Qin Fang's summons to the Demon Suppression Bureau and gave Liang Qiu two Mortal-Shedding Pills in repayment for the Eternal Night Sinking Armguard.
• Li Mubai told Chu Fan that the Bureau would attack the Blood Shadow Sect, which was led by Xia Lie and secretly controlled by the Xia Family, and ordered him to join the operation in three days.
• Chu Fan studied the Burial Demon Great Swamp map, prepared Bone-Eroding Pills for the mission, and broke the Shenxiao Golden Bell Shield's limit, gaining Diamond Solid Bastion.
• Chu Fan entered the Training Ground to test his strengthened Golden Bell Shield.

Chu Fan and six Demon Suppression Bureau fighters launched a surprise assault on the Blood Shadow Sect’s stronghold in Cold Crow Valley, devastating its defenses and battling its leaders. After Zhang Lie transformed into a rampaging monster and a masked woman appeared, Chu Fan faced her alone, but she vanished too quickly for even his enhanced perception to track.

• Chu Fan, Li Mubai, and five others entered the Burial Demon Great Swamp, silently eliminating Blood Shadow Sect sentries and poisoning Cold Crow Valley’s water with Bone-Eroding Pills.
• When the poison was discovered, Li Mubai ordered the attack, and the seven fighters struck the valley with Fifth-tier Meteor and Giant Wood Talismans, destroying the castle and killing many disciples.
• Chu Fan killed Blood Shadow Sect fighters and thwarted three sorcerers’ spell, recovering Black Abyss after the sorcerers trapped it with Talisman Chains and then killing two of them.
• Zhang Lie swallowed a Beast Transformation Pill and became a monstrous force that overwhelmed Nangong Yue and pressed Li Mubai’s group, while Chu Fan rescued Nangong Yue and told her to aid the others.
• A masked woman ambushed Chu Fan, and Nangong Yue warned that the woman was likely in the Mind Clarification Realm before joining Li Mubai’s group, which took Fleeting Beauty pills.
• Chu Fan took a Fleeting Beauty pill, activated Ghost Fire Burning Soul, and drew the Falling Sun Bow, but the masked woman vanished beyond his perception as he tried to track her.