Chapter Summaries

After consuming the Dragon Elephant Fruit, Fang Han’s Body Tempering Talent improved dramatically, letting him advance his Black Tortoise True Art far faster. Meanwhile, Nether Pavilion rejected a secretive faction’s offer to eliminate Fang Han, though its leaders remained worried Azure Profound Sect might still become their enemy.

• Fang Han tested his improved talent and found that his body could be tempered at an astonishing pace, potentially reaching the Black Tortoise True Art’s Greater Accomplishment realm within half a month.
• Li Hanjiang and Ling Wuyuan lamented Nether Pavilion’s costly settlement with Qingyang Prefecture and agreed to lie low while Fang Han remained powerful.
• A masked intruder revealed that he belonged to the Dark Sacred Cult and offered to remove Fang Han if Nether Pavilion joined his faction.
• Li Hanjiang and Ling Wuyuan refused the offer, but afterward worried that Azure Profound Sect might not truly forgive Nether Pavilion.
• Half a month later, Fang Han continued tempering his body in Azure Profound Sect’s underground Cultivation Ground, with his strength growing rapidly.

Fang Han completed the Black Tortoise True Art’s Greater Accomplishment and watched Yun Qianyue secure a place among the Azure Profound Sect’s True Disciples. Meanwhile, surviving Thunderlight Pavilion disciples plotted revenge against Fang Han by targeting the Fang Clan.

• Fang Han advanced the Black Tortoise True Art to Greater Accomplishment, gaining physical strength comparable to a Grandmaster First Level and greatly improved defense.
• Fang Han hurried to Martial Dao Square, where Yun Qianyue challenged the General Ranking Martial Dao Stele and rose to twenty-ninth place.
• Yun Qianyue remained in the top thirty for three days and officially became a True Disciple, moving into a courtyard beside Yun Muyao’s.
• Fang Han congratulated Yun Qianyue and gave her a low-grade Divine Speed Jade Talisman to help protect her.
• Surviving Thunderlight Pavilion disciples discussed revenge and considered destroying the Fang Clan because they could not challenge the Azure Profound Sect directly.

Seven Thunderlight Pavilion disciples attacked the Fang Clan, but Redfire killed them before they could reach Fang Han’s family. Fang Han returned to Liangshui City, confirmed his family was safe, and went with Fang Lingyuan to inspect the attackers’ bodies.

• A group of disciples split over whether to attack the Fang Clan, and seven chose to infiltrate Liangshui City and destroy it.
• The seven Thunderlight Pavilion disciples entered the Fang Clan at night, killed guards, and overwhelmed Clan Head Fang Lingyuan and the other defenders.
• Redfire arrived and killed all seven attackers before they could escape.
• After receiving a message that the Fang Clan had been attacked, Fang Han rushed from the Supreme Elder Courtyard to Liangshui City and confirmed his family was unharmed.
• Fang Han questioned Fang Lingyuan about the attack, then followed him to inspect the seven attackers’ corpses.

Fang Han tracked down and eliminated the remaining Thunderlight Pavilion disciples, recovering their hidden treasury and raising his wealth to eighty million gold. He returned safely to the Fang Clan and told his parents the threat was gone.

• Fang Han identified the attackers as Thunderlight Pavilion remnants and promised Fang Lingyuan he would find them all, while arranging compensation for the Fang Clan's dead.
• Fang Han followed the seven dead disciples' soul auras north to a remote town, where he found five more Thunderlight Pavilion disciples.
• Fang Han killed three of the five and forced the other two to reveal that the stolen treasury was hidden in an abandoned mine.
• Fang Han killed the remaining disciples and collected the mine's treasures, bringing his System Panel wealth to eighty million gold.
• Fang Han returned to Rain-Listening Pavilion unharmed and told Fang Zheng and Lin Wan that all the remaining Thunderlight Pavilion remnants had been dealt with.

After eliminating Thunderlight Pavilion’s remnants, Fang Han agreed to hold his weddings to Yun Qianyue and Lan Yuexin together, then celebrated with guests from across Qingyang Prefecture. After a half-month of rest, he resumed cultivation while supporting Lan Yuexin’s plan to start a business with ten million gold in capital.

• Fang Han told Fang Lingyuan that Thunderlight Pavilion’s remaining forces had been eliminated, easing the Fang Clan Head’s concerns.
• Fang Zheng and Lin Wan proposed combining Fang Han’s two weddings in mid-June, and Fang Han agreed after learning the Yun Clan and Hundred Treasures Pavilion had approved.
• On June 16, Fang Han married Yun Qianyue and Lan Yuexin at a lavish ceremony attended by leaders from the major powers across Qingyang Prefecture.
• After spending half a month with his wives, Fang Han returned to cultivation, and Yun Qianyue said she would resume her sword training too.
• Lan Yuexin told Fang Han she wanted to start a business, and Fang Han offered her treasures worth around ten million gold as startup capital.

Fang Han advanced the Great Void Wind God Sword to the Proficiency Realm and decided to focus on reaching Grandmaster Second Level. The chapter left him facing an anonymous threat demanding Starry Ink Jade at Huaiyang Lake within three days, or his abandoned Grey-Robed Middle-Aged Man identity would be exposed.

• Fang Han broke through the Great Void Wind God Sword to the Proficiency Realm, and the uncontrolled aura from his breakthrough shocked Yun Qianyue and Lan Yuexin.
• Fang Han assessed that his strength had risen to the peak of Grandmaster Sixth Stage and shifted his cultivation focus toward reaching Grandmaster Second Level.
• A Fang Clan guard delivered Fang Han an anonymous letter that he was specifically asked to open himself.
• Fang Han read that the sender had identified him as the Grey-Robed Middle-Aged Man and demanded he bring Starry Ink Jade to Huaiyang Lake in Songquan Prefecture within three days.
• The letter threatened to expose Fang Han's identity and possession of Starry Ink Jade to the top-tier forces if he failed to comply.

Fang Han received a threatening letter from the person behind the scenes and decided to improve his strength before their arranged meeting. After consuming three Vermilion Fruits, he broke through to Grandmaster Second Level and prepared to face the threat in Songquan Prefecture.

• Fang Han learned that the letter’s sender had arranged a meeting in Songquan Prefecture and intended to force him to hand over the Starry Ink Jade.
• Fang Han judged that the sender was powerful but not overwhelmingly stronger than him, and decided that breaking through to Grandmaster Second Level would improve his odds.
• Fang Han entered seclusion and consumed the three Vermilion Fruits he had saved for Lan Yuexin.
• Fang Han’s amplified Root Bone Talent helped him shatter the bottleneck and reach Grandmaster Second Level.
• Fang Han sensed that his strength now rivaled a Grandmaster Seventh Layer and looked toward Songquan Prefecture, ready to confront the person behind the scenes.

Fang Han met the masked man at Huaiyang Lake to learn how his hidden identity had been exposed and whether anyone else knew. After splitting the Starry Ink Jade and letting the masked man flee with half, Fang Han secretly pursued him to discover who he was.

• Fang Han left his family and traveled from Liangshui City to Huaiyang Lake in Songquan Prefecture.
• Fang Han sensed a Grandmaster concealed in the reeds and confronted the masked man, who demanded the Starry Ink Jade in exchange for keeping Fang Han’s gray-robed identity secret.
• Fang Han agreed to give the masked man half the Starry Ink Jade, but the masked man refused to explain how he had traced him.
• Fang Han split the Starry Ink Jade and tossed one half to the masked man, who activated a Middle-Grade Divine Speed Jade Talisman and fled.
• Fang Han used the Soul-Chasing Art to follow the masked man’s soul aura from a distance.

Fang Han traced the masked man to the White Deer Merchant Association in White Deer City and learned that its president was a Grandmaster Mid-Stage. After killing an association steward he had abducted and interrogated, Fang Han prepared to target the president and the association.

• Fang Han followed the masked man's soul aura to the White Deer Merchant Association and deduced that the association had identified him through his Wind-Chasing Moon-Pursuing Steps.
• Fang Han held back his urge to attack and waited outside the association until a carriage carrying a steward departed.
• Fang Han killed the carriage driver, captured the steward, and took him to an abandoned house for interrogation.
• The steward revealed that the president was a Grandmaster Mid-Stage, that he knew of no other Grandmasters in the association, and that the president lived in Quieting Heart Courtyard.
• Fang Han killed the steward despite promising to spare him, determined to prevent the association from exposing his identity.

Fang Han infiltrated the White Deer Merchant Association and discovered that its old master planned to expose his identity and have rival factions kill him. He ambushed the old man and, after three powerful strikes, left him gravely wounded as the fight continued.

• Fang Han disguised himself as the watched middle-aged man and secretly entered the White Deer Merchant Association’s residential district.
• Fang Han overheard the old man plotting to reveal his identity and draw powerful factions after him.
• Fang Han attacked the old man by surprise and severed his right arm.
• The old man tried to evade Fang Han’s next strikes, but suffered a deep wound to his left ribs and was smashed through a courtyard wall.
• Fang Han thrust at the old man’s chest, but the wounded man dodged and lost flesh and his collarbone from his left shoulder.

Fang Han killed the old man who had pursued him and reclaimed the Starry Ink Jade from the man’s severed arm. When the White Deer Merchant Association arrived and recognized Fang Han, he attacked its chief supervisor, leaving the other members fleeing in terror.

• Fang Han struck down the wounded old man before he could use a High-Grade Earth-Element Talisman.
• Fang Han searched the old man and took six talismans, including the High-Grade Earth-Element Talisman.
• Fang Han pried the Starry Ink Jade from the old man’s severed right hand and put it in his Storage Ring.
• The White Deer Merchant Association’s chief supervisor and several hundred members arrived, saw their dead president, and recognized Fang Han.
• Fang Han killed the chief supervisor with a single sword strike, and the remaining upper ranks tried to flee.

Fang Han annihilated everyone at the White Deer Merchant Association and looted its warehouse and hidden chamber. He raised his wealth to 138 million gold, leaving him able to afford a Level Ten Amplification.

• Fang Han killed the remaining high-ranking members, guards, and every other person at the White Deer Merchant Association.
• Fang Han drove off approaching factions with his Grandmaster pressure, then broke into the association's warehouse and collected or converted its goods.
• Fang Han searched the old man's courtyard and discovered a hidden passage leading to a secret chamber.
• Fang Han stored the chamber's Artistic Conception-level techniques and useful treasures while converting other items into wealth.
• Fang Han increased his possessed wealth from 95 million gold to 138 million gold, surpassing the 100 million gold needed for a Level Ten Amplification.

Fang Han finished looting the White Deer Merchant Association and reached 171 million gold in Possessed Wealth, though he suspected its president had another hidden treasure cache. He stayed nearby to watch for survivors and inspected the association’s martial arts manuals, ending with a familiar Wind-Chasing Moon-Pursuing Steps booklet.

• Fang Han recharged the weapons and valuables he found, raising his Possessed Wealth to 171 million gold, then left the White Deer Merchant Association after finding no more secret chambers.
• Factions arrived in the morning, discovered the association’s members and Grandmaster Mid-Stage president dead, and fled in fear.
• Fang Han watched the ruins from a nearby inn in disguise, hoping any surviving senior members would return.
• Fang Han examined more than twenty martial arts booklets, including several incomplete Middle-Grade Artistic Conception techniques.
• Fang Han picked up the final booklet and recognized it as the Wind-Chasing Moon-Pursuing Steps.

Fang Han used his wealth to amplify his Root Bone Talent to 1024 times and discovered his cultivation speed had increased fivefold. While watching the White Deer Merchant Association Ruins, he spotted a suspicious man and began following him to find out whether he was a surviving member of the association.

• Fang Han suspected the White Deer Merchant Association had secretly copied the Artistic Conception cultivation manuals entrusted to it for auction, and he stored the booklets to copy for his sect and clan.
• Fang Han spent 100 million gold to raise his Root Bone Talent Amplification from 512 times to 1024 times.
• Fang Han cultivated with the Starry Ink Jade and found his cultivation speed had increased at least fivefold, leaving him confident he could reach the Grandmaster Third Level in a little over a month.
• For three days, Fang Han watched the White Deer Merchant Association Ruins but found only city forces investigating its destruction.
• Fang Han noticed a suspicious man lingering near the ruins, used Shadowveil, and followed him to investigate whether he had survived the association's destruction.

Fang Han discovered a surviving White Deer Merchant Association higher-up who knew he was linked to the association’s destruction. After learning the man had already leaked information about him to the Flying Crow intelligence organization, Fang Han killed him, leaving his identity exposed to other factions.

• Fang Han followed a suspicious man to an inn and overheard him confirm that the White Deer Merchant Association had been destroyed and suspect Fang Han was responsible.
• Fang Han entered the man’s room, restrained him, and learned he was a high-ranking member of the White Deer Merchant Association.
• The man said no other higher-ups had survived and accused Fang Han of killing the association’s members indiscriminately.
• The man revealed that he had sent information about Fang Han to the Flying Crow intelligence organization on the president’s orders.
• Fang Han snapped the man’s neck after learning the intelligence had already been leaked.

After learning that information about him might have leaked, Fang Han planned to protect the Starry Ink Jade and keep the Fang Clan and Azure Profound Sect safe. He decided to draw the factions hunting him to White Deer City while secretly making for the Imperial Capital, but a diner recognized him and followed.

• Fang Han dissolved the corpse of the man who had searched for him, then considered the threat posed by factions seeking his Starry Ink Jade.
• Fang Han decided to travel secretly to the Imperial Capital, where top grandmasters would not dare attack, and to draw his pursuers to White Deer City instead of Qingyang Prefecture.
• Fang Han wore a human-skin mask and visited Cloud-Gazing Tower, choosing the busy second floor so people there would recognize him.
• A blue-robed middle-aged man recognized Fang Han from an old portrait and followed him after leaving silver on the table.

After killing the seven men who tracked him in White Deer City, Fang Han left for the Imperial Capital as news of his identity spread. Zhou Tai and Qin Yuan learned that Fang Han was the Grey-Robed Middle-Aged Man, and Qin Yuan heard that Fang Han had become a grandmaster.

• Fang Han sensed that seven people were following him, lured them into an alley, and killed them with a single sword strike.
• Fang Han changed his disguise, left White Deer City, and headed toward the Imperial Capital.
• Zhou Tai received a message that Fang Han had appeared in White Deer City and changed course to pursue him before rival factions could find him.
• A Dragon Abyss Pavilion disciple told Qin Yuan that the Grey-Robed Middle-Aged Man was Fang Han of the Azure Profound Sect.
• The disciple reported that Fang Han was now a grandmaster, leaving Qin Yuan shocked.

After Fang Han’s identity and Grandmaster breakthrough shocked Qin Yuan, Lin Qingyin, Chu Jinghong, and Zhen Feixuan, he arrived at the imperial capital in disguise. He drew attention at a busy restaurant to keep factions seeking the Starry Ink Jade from targeting the Azure Profound Sect and the Fang Clan.

• Qin Yuan, Lin Qingyin, Chu Jinghong, and Zhen Feixuan learned that Fang Han had disguised himself as the Grey-Robed Middle-Aged Man and reached the Grandmaster realm.
• Chu Jinghong began three months of secluded cultivation to catch up with Fang Han.
• Fang Han entered the imperial capital wearing a Human Skin Mask and chose the Heavenly Fragrance Tower as a conspicuous place to appear.
• Fang Han ordered food at the restaurant and sensed several diners scrutinizing him, suggesting that someone had recognized him.

Fang Han settled into an inn in the Imperial Capital to cultivate, while Zhou Tai failed to track him in White Deer City and learned he had moved to the capital. Zhou Tai found Fang Han at the inn, and the chapter ended as they faced each other at the courtyard door.

• Fang Han rented an inn courtyard with an independent Cultivation Ground for half a year and focused on strengthening himself.
• Zhou Tai arrived in White Deer City and failed to detect Fang Han's aura at Cloud-Gazing Tower.
• Zhou Tai received a message that Fang Han had appeared at Heavenly Fragrance Tower in the Imperial Capital and realized the capital made pursuing the Starry Ink Jade difficult.
• Fang Han cultivated with the two pieces of Starry Ink Jade and decided to have them made into a rush mat.
• Zhou Tai arrived at Fang Han's courtyard with the inn waiter, and Fang Han dismissed the apologetic waiter before confronting him.

Fang Han resisted Zhou Tai’s demand for the Starry Ink Jade and warned that he could retaliate against Zhou Tai’s family and disciples. After Zhou Tai left, Fang Han took the jade to Golden Jade Pavilion to have it made into a meditation cushion.

• Zhou Tai demanded that Fang Han hand over the Starry Ink Jade and warned him that other people who had obtained it had been killed.
• Fang Han refused to surrender the jade and threatened to target Zhou Tai’s family and disciples in return.
• Zhou Tai left after warning Fang Han that hiding in the Imperial Capital would not protect him or those close to him.
• Fang Han went to Golden Jade Pavilion and asked the old craftsman to make the Starry Ink Jade into a meditation cushion.
• The old craftsman quoted a fee of three million taels, and Fang Han agreed on the condition that he could oversee the crafting process.