Chapter Summaries

Li Hai crossed into the Knight Alliance Chaotic Lands and discovered that its turbulent essence and different laws had transformed his martial arts rank and weakened his spiritual perception. He encountered a bandit stockade in a gorge, where its leader ordered him to stop.

• Li Hai reached the immense mountain wall dividing Great Jing from the Hero Alliance and entered Two Worlds Mountain Pass.
• As he traveled through the pass, Li Hai felt the essence of heaven and earth stir his fighting spirit.
• In an open-air gorge, Li Hai's interface changed his rank from Void-Reality Grandmaster in Orthodox Martial Arts to Innate Legend in True Qi Martial Arts, and he realized his spiritual perception had sharply diminished.
• Li Hai spotted a stockade guarded by armed bandits and noticed that their ranks were also labeled in True Qi Martial Arts.
• The burly black man leading the stockade shouted at Li Hai to stop, but Li Hai kept walking.

Li Hai destroyed Xiong Heiwei and the bandits’ stockade, then discovered that his True Force attacks became tangible blasts in the Knight Alliance Chaotic Lands. He questioned the surviving bandits about the region and nearby factions, and the chapter ended as one of them promised to answer.

• Xiong Heiwei ordered his bandits to shoot Li Hai with arrows and charged him, but Li Hai’s force blast killed Xiong Heiwei and obliterated much of the stockade.
• Li Hai tested a fingertip beam on the surviving bandits, killing several, then realized that True Force resonated with the local essence of heaven and earth and became tangible energy.
• Li Hai questioned the bandits and learned they followed Xiong Heiwei, had been waiting for a caravan, and knew nothing about Anping Play.
• Li Hai killed a bandit who could not answer his questions about the region, then demanded that another bandit tell him what he knew.

After learning that Blade Soul Valley was hidden somewhere in Hundred Canal Territory, Li Hai killed the bandits who had given him the lead and headed for Hundred Canal City. He discovered that spells failed in the Martial Realm and witnessed the city’s routine violence.

• Li Hai learned about the Martial Realm, Hundred Canal Territory, and the rumors connecting Blade Soul Valley to the bandit world.
• Li Hai asked the bandits whether they regretted becoming outlaws, then killed them all with his scarlet steel whip.
• Li Hai found that his spells failed in the Martial Realm and raced on foot through the air toward Hundred Canal City.
• Li Hai arrived in Hundred Canal City and saw its residents fight over trivial insults, with passersby treating the violence as ordinary.
• Li Hai watched a man die in a fight over a drinks bill and saw a woman stab a would-be groper to death; beggars stripped both bodies and dumped them in a ditch.

Li Hai searched Hundred Canal City for a bandit who could lead him to Blade Soul Valley and found Master Tiger, a disciple of the valley. After Master Tiger refused to guide him, Li Hai killed him and his men, then learned how casually the city’s spectators and beggars dealt with the bodies.

• Li Hai picked Master Tiger out of a crowd and demanded that he take him to Blade Soul Valley.
• Master Tiger’s men surrounded Li Hai, but Li Hai killed them with his steel whip before Master Tiger could draw his saber.
• Master Tiger admitted he was a bandit but refused to show Li Hai the way, so Li Hai tore off his head and spine.
• The spectators cheered Li Hai’s brutality, while Beggar Archer asked to take the bodies away.
• Beggar Archer summoned other beggars to remove the bodies, and the crowd dispersed.

Li Hai found Leng Ying, an Innate Madman, and forced her to guide him to Blade Soul Valley while searching for someone who knew Anping Play. After Li Hai revealed his Legendary Rank strength, Leng Ying agreed to obey, but a distant voice called for him to wait.

• Li Hai chose Leng Ying as his target beneath the walls of Hundred Canal City and demanded that she take him to Blade Soul Valley.
• Li Hai trampled Leng Ying until she surrendered, then threatened her and asked whether she had heard of Anping Play.
• Leng Ying said she had not heard of Anping Play and explained that Blade Soul Valley was her sect.
• Li Hai's whip destroyed part of the city and mountain walls, revealing his Legendary Rank cultivation to Leng Ying.
• Leng Ying agreed to do whatever Li Hai said, but someone shouted for him to wait from afar.

Li Hai killed Niu Fei, a young man with the Heaven-Reaching Mark, and learned that the mark would transfer to him as a blood-red birthmark, drawing martial artists to attack him. As Li Hai and Leng Ying left Hundred Canal City, he asked why people in the Martial Realm seemed indifferent to life and death.

• Niu Fei begged Li Hai to take him as a disciple so he could become a bandit king, and Li Hai killed him with a steel whip.
• Leng Ying explained that Niu Fei’s golden Heaven-Reaching Mark made him a destined figure whose nemesis would inherit the mark after killing him.
• Leng Ying told Li Hai that the mark would appear on his forehead as a blood-red birthmark, greatly improving his aptitude and comprehension while attracting killers.
• Li Hai and Leng Ying left Hundred Canal City, and Li Hai put her in North Forest Garden while they traveled.
• Li Hai asked Leng Ying why people in the Martial Realm cared so little about human life and where new people came from as so many died.

Li Hai learned about the extraordinary childbirth customs of the Knight Alliance Martial Realm before reaching Blade Soul Valley with Leng Ying. He killed Leng Ying for her many murders and charged toward the sect’s headquarters.

• Leng Ying told Li Hai that women in the Martial Realm gave birth to many children easily and recovered almost immediately.
• Li Hai and Leng Ying arrived at the oasis where Blade Soul Valley was located, and Leng Ying asked him to release her.
• After learning Leng Ying had killed at least eight hundred people, Li Hai struck her with his steel whip and declared she had earned her death.
• Leng Ying cursed Li Hai as she lay dying, and he finished her with a barrage of whip strikes.
• Li Hai raced across the oasis and launched himself toward the Blade Soul Valley headquarters.

Li Hai descended into Blade Soul Valley and slaughtered the disciples and elders who attacked him, destroying buildings as he fought. After his killing intent subsided, he recognized that Innate Heroes matched Thousand-Army Rank martial artists in the Jing Dynasty and faced an approaching Innate Legend.

• Li Hai landed in a courtyard, where seven or eight Blade Soul Valley disciples attacked him, and he killed them with his whip.
• Li Hai unleashed a barrage of whip strikes that demolished nearby buildings and drew more defenders from the ruins.
• A burly old man attacked Li Hai from above, but Li Hai blasted him apart with a beam of true qi fired from his mouth.
• Li Hai fought Blade Soul Valley disciples with his fists, feet, and claws, killing several hundred of them.
• Li Hai shattered a distant old man's blade aura with his spit and killed him along with his saber.
• Li Hai identified Innate Heroes as equivalents to Thousand-Army Rank martial artists, then welcomed the arrival of an Innate Legend as a worthy opponent.

Li Hai confronted the female Grandmaster of Blade Soul Valley, killed her with a massive blade aura, and devastated the sect in the ensuing attack. After accidentally killing another survivor, he faced Yuan Ran, a peak Grandmaster who emerged from the highest pavilion.

• The female Grandmaster questioned Li Hai about the slaughter at Blade Soul Valley, and he asked her about the Xuan Dynasty Remnant and Anping Play.
• When the female Grandmaster said she knew nothing, Li Hai killed her with a colossal Severed Emotion Blade Aura.
• Li Hai's blade aura split into countless blades that destroyed the surrounding buildings and killed hundreds of Blade Soul Valley disciples, raising his Stronger Fragment count from 24 to 26.
• Li Hai blamed the world's vital energy for magnifying his bloodlust, then reflexively killed a disciple crawling from the rubble.
• Yuan Ran appeared atop the highest pavilion and accused Li Hai of harboring profound malice, and Li Hai challenged him to fight.

Li Hai confronted Yuwen Shi, the master of Blade Soul Valley, and learned that the old man knew something about the Xuan Dynasty Remnants. Yuwen Shi withheld the information to restrain Li Hai, who resolved to subdue him without killing him.

• Li Hai recognized Yuwen Shi’s powerful skills and divine ability, Steel Thorn Bone Spikes, which he had already taken for himself.
• Yuwen Shi challenged Li Hai to avenge his fallen disciples, then reacted with admiration when Li Hai revealed he was eighteen.
• Li Hai asked Yuwen Shi about the Xuan Dynasty Remnants and Anping Play, and Yuwen Shi said he knew a little about the remnants but nothing about Anping Play.
• Yuwen Shi delayed giving details until after their fight, using Li Hai’s need for information to make him fear killing his opponent.
• Li Hai decided to beat Yuwen Shi half to death and question him, and Yuwen Shi charged at him from the tower.

Yuwen Shi and Li Hai fought a devastating battle across the ruins of Blade Soul Valley, with Li Hai gaining the upper hand through his bloodline ability and relentless whip attacks. Yuwen Shi was left barely alive in a crater, and Li Hai demanded the promised intelligence about Xuan Nie before he died.

• Yuwen Shi and Li Hai opened their fight with a clash that devastated the surrounding ruins and killed many Blade Soul Valley disciples and spectators.
• Li Hai used his Bloodline Divine Ability, Mastering Ten Thousand Currents, to disrupt Yuwen Shi’s blood and qi, then battered him with a storm of whip strikes.
• Li Hai launched Yuwen Shi thousands of zhang into the sky and struck him down into Blade Soul Valley at tremendous speed.
• The impact reduced Yuwen Shi to a barely living mass of flesh and caused waves of destruction that killed hundreds of hidden disciples.
• Li Hai told Yuwen Shi he had about two minutes left and demanded all the information he knew about Xuan Nie.
• Yuwen Shi acknowledged Li Hai’s strength and agreed to keep his promise by sharing the intelligence.

Yuwen Shi explained the Three Holy Lands, the Three Secret Sects, and how they might lead Li Hai to the Xuan Dynasty Remnants. After Yuwen Shi died from shock at Li Hai’s claimed strength, Li Hai flew toward the Mystic Gu Workshop’s region with 28 Stronger Fragments.

• Yuwen Shi told Li Hai that the Three Holy Lands were led by Dragon Sword Emperor Wu Tianshi, Winter God Xue Cangqiong, and Living Buddha Master Fanie.
• Yuwen Shi said the Xuan Dynasty Remnants were connected to the Mechanism Tower, Mystic Gu Workshop, and Medicine Immortal Pavilion, and directed Li Hai to seek answers from them.
• Yuwen Shi located the Mystic Gu Workshop in the Red Earth Forest at the southern end of the Northern Wilds, eighteen thousand li from the Jiaolan Great Desert.
• Li Hai comforted Yuwen Shi about Blade Soul Valley’s destruction, then claimed he had used only one percent of his strength in their fight.
• Yuwen Shi died after hearing Li Hai’s claim, while Li Hai left the ruins and flew into the desert with his Stronger Fragments count increased from 26 to 28.

After perfecting the Heavenly Charm Profound Art, Li Hai transformed into a supernatural beauty and traveled south to Jinfu Town, where he feasted in the market. A strange jingling sound came from behind him as he ate.

• Li Hai rested at an oasis and used his Blade Soul Valley techniques, transforming his body, face, and aura through the Heavenly Charm Profound Art.
• Li Hai recognized the art as the source of his transformation and complained that he had become a femboy.
• Li Hai traveled south to Jinfu Town, a busy trading stop between the desert and forest.
• Li Hai ate and drank at a barbecue stall while townspeople stared at his striking appearance.
• A strange jingling sound came from behind Li Hai.

Li Hai exposed a beggar’s child-mutilation scheme and prepared to confront the gang behind it, but the supposedly disabled girl revealed herself as a supernatural threat. A young woman intervened to protect Li Hai as the girl and the surrounding crowd attacked.

• A woeful-faced beggar tried to make Li Hai give him money by displaying a severely injured girl on his handcart.
• Li Hai heard that the girl was starving while the beggar had eaten recently, then threatened to cut the man open and demanded to know where the child came from.
• Li Hai spotted four burly men watching nearby and accused the beggar’s group of trafficking and mutilating children.
• When Li Hai approached the girl to offer food, she fired sinister green light from her empty eye sockets at him.
• A young woman rushed in, shielded Li Hai from the light, and kicked the girl off the handcart as the girl unleashed Dharma Power.
• The beggar and the onlookers turned hostile and charged alongside the hovering girl.

Li Hai and Feifei stopped a Flawless Sect attack, and Feifei warned him that the sect wanted him as a blood sacrifice. As they left the emptied street, she explained the sect’s hatred of beauty and its plan to kill beautiful people.

• Feifei used an incantation to knock out the civilians controlled by a Heavenly War Filth Child and drive the child back.
• Li Hai restrained the Filth Child, and Feifei put it to sleep before introducing herself as a disciple of Granny Zan.
• Feifei told Li Hai that the Flawless Sect had noticed him and intended to capture him for a blood sacrifice.
• Feifei carried the Filth Child away with Li Hai and explained that it had been made with the Black Descending Art.
• Feifei said the Flawless Sect, also called the Ugly Sect, believed beauty had stolen the world’s flawless state and sought to kill beautiful people.

Li Hai learned how Feifei’s Civet King Curse worked and discovered the secrets behind her abilities, including a bloodline technique that could let an ancestor take over a descendant’s body. The chapter left him wary of powerful Fifth Realm Warlocks and convinced that Feifei’s ancestors had been extraordinary.

• Feifei explained that her master knew where the Mystic Gu Workshop was and said the Flawless Sect had hunted her before.
• Li Hai realized the Civet King Curse drew on Incense Thought Power, which could let Fifth Realm Warlocks use their arts at full strength in the Martial Realm.
• Li Hai learned that Feifei’s Death-Defying Cat Demon let her resurrect through a feline within a hundred li, even after her body and soul were destroyed.
• Li Hai discovered that the Mysterious Principle Memory Nest Book sealed an ancestor’s memories into descendants and could erase their memories so the ancestor could take over their bodies.

Li Hai attended Jinfu Town’s Cat God Festival with Feifei and met Granny Zan after the ceremony to ask about the Mystic Gu Workshop. Granny Zan reacted with alarm when he explained he wanted to find the workshop, and began to tell him what he needed to know.

• Feifei explained that Jinfu Town’s annual Cat God Festival would keep Granny Zan busy until the ceremony ended.
• Li Hai and Feifei arrived at the crowded Cat King Temple, where Li Hai saw the festival stalls, performances, and offerings to the Civet King.
• Feifei told Li Hai that the wealthy widow surnamed Wang was a notorious bully with suspected ties to desert bandits.
• Widow Wang saw Li Hai, fainted, then woke and began whispering with her attendants while watching him.
• After the ceremony, Feifei led Li Hai to Granny Zan, and he asked where to find the Mystic Gu Workshop in the Red Earth Forest.
• Granny Zan grew wary when Li Hai said the workshop might know something about his enemy, then sighed and began to explain.

Li Hai persuaded Feifei to lead him to the Mystic Gu Workshop in the Red Earth Forest, where she had once been held as an experimental subject. As they entered the forest, Feifei sensed that something terrible had happened, while Granny Zan was already tied to a pillar inside the Cat King Temple.

• Granny Zan warned Li Hai that the Mystic Gu Workshop conducted cruel experiments, and Li Hai offered gold to learn its location.
• Feifei volunteered to guide Li Hai, and Granny Zan agreed after he promised her fifty taels of gold and another five hundred when he returned.
• Feifei told Li Hai that she had grown up as an experimental subject at the Mystic Gu Workshop and escaped after her divine ability resurrected her as a wild cat.
• Feifei explained that Granny Zan had once been a disciple of the Mystic Gu Workshop but had refused to participate in its cruel experiments.
• As Feifei and Li Hai entered the Red Earth Forest, Feifei felt that something bad had happened, while Granny Zan was bound to a pillar in the Cat King Temple.

Scarface tortured and killed Granny Zan while searching for Li Hai and the gold, but Feifei sensed that something had happened at Cat King Temple and returned to find Granny Zan alive and preparing a meal. Granny Zan reminisced with Feifei about their twelve years together.

• Scarface accused Granny Zan of hiding gold and demanded to know where Li Hai had gone.
• Granny Zan refused to answer, so Scarface cut off her hand, gouged out her eyes, and tore off her head before taking the twenty gold bars.
• Feifei felt that something terrible had happened to her master and rushed back to Cat King Temple with Li Hai following.
• Feifei entered the side room and found Granny Zan alive, setting out a meal.
• Granny Zan urged Feifei to eat and recalled that they had lived together for twelve years.

After Granny Zan was murdered, Feifei manifested the Bewildering Illusory Realm and begged Li Hai to avenge her. Li Hai suspected Widow Wang and attacked her residence, where he began forcing her to answer for the killing.

• Feifei's new Level 3 Bewildering Illusory Realm created an illusion of Granny Zan comforting her before Feifei faced the corpse and asked Li Hai for revenge.
• Li Hai promised to avenge Granny Zan and left the Cat King Temple to confront Widow Wang.
• Li Hai burst into Widow Wang's drunken banquet and struck her down when she approached him lecherously.
• Li Hai used vacuum blades to kill most of the people in the courtyard and tore off Widow Wang's ear.
• Widow Wang begged Li Hai to spare her, offering him her money and body.