Chapter Summaries

Mu Yang killed Medicine King Valley’s Grand Consecrator by letting a sword strike his iron-hard body and crushing the man’s head with his mace. As the onlookers reacted to his body-tempering strength, Xiao Tusi revealed a magic treasure and ordered the Mountain-Crushing Crossbow used against him.

• Mu Yang took the Grand Consecrator’s sword thrust without injury and killed him with a blow from the Black Gold Four-Edged Mace.
• Gu Lingyun, Xiaocui, Zhao Xian, and Gu Tingquan watched in shock as Mu Yang’s body-tempering strength became clear.
• Gu Tingquan told Gu Lingyun that Mu Yang was likely a rare body-tempering prodigy who had cultivated seven or eight such martial arts.
• Lu Zongsong killed the remaining two Consecrators and tossed their sleeve pouches to Mu Yang as agreed.
• Xiao Tusi, enraged by the deaths of Medicine King Valley’s nine Consecrators, produced a chain magic treasure and ordered the Mountain-Crushing Crossbow used against Mu Yang.

Mu Yang defeated Xiao Tusi’s attack by catching and hurling back a Mountain-Crushing Crossbow bolt, destroying Xiao Tusi’s dantian. After taking the Demon-Locking Chain, Mu Yang charged back into battle against the Medicine King Valley disciples.

• Xiao Tusi launched the Demon-Locking Chain and ordered ten Mountain-Crushing Crossbows to fire at Mu Yang.
• Mu Yang leapt into the air, activated the Indestructible Vajra Glazed Body, and caught one of the incoming bolts with his bare hands.
• Mu Yang hurled the bolt back at Xiao Tusi, striking his lower abdomen and shattering his primary dantian.
• Gu Tingquan witnessed Mu Yang’s golden body and wondered whether it came from Vajra Temple’s secret martial arts.
• Mu Yang took the now-inactive Demon-Locking Chain and charged into battle against the Medicine King Valley disciples.

Mu Yang and Lu Zongsong slaughtered their way through Medicine King Valley when the Wind-Flow Golden Eagle arrived, seeking to reclaim its treasure. The eagle offered to leave Mu Yang alone, but Mu Yang activated his wind-related traits and attacked it first.

• Gu Tingquan prepared to descend into the valley after watching Mu Yang and Lu Zongsong fight.
• The Wind-Flow Golden Eagle swooped down over Medicine King Valley, alarming its disciples and drawing the attention of Mu Yang, Lu Zongsong, Gu Tingquan, and Gu Lingyun.
• The Golden Eagle mocked the valley and proposed that it and Mu Yang fight separate battles while it reclaimed its treasure.
• Mu Yang rejected the offer, activated Wind Treading, Strong Wind Major Meridian, and Windcloud Body, then charged the Golden Eagle.

Mu Yang fought the Wind-Flow Golden Eagle in Medicine King Valley and appeared to fall to its empowered claws. The eagle realized too late that Mu Yang had deceived its Golden Eyes with an illusion.

• The Wind-Flow Golden Eagle attacked Mu Yang with wind blades, but Mu Yang shattered them with his Black Gold Four-Edged Mace.
• Mu Yang used Soul Howl to stun the eagle and prepared to bind it with the Demon-Locking Chain.
• Gu Tingquan explained that the eagle's Golden Eyes could resist soul attacks and see through illusions, while Gu Lingyun urged him to help Mu Yang.
• The Wind-Flow Golden Eagle escaped the soul attack, activated Wind-Flow Golden Light, and struck Mu Yang with Flowing Gold Claw.
• The eagle impaled what appeared to be Mu Yang, but the corpse and blood vanished as Mu Yang revealed that Five Senses Manipulation had fooled it.

Mu Yang killed the Wind-Flow Golden Eagle and finished plundering Medicine King Valley, then found and opened the secret mechanism box containing the Blood Jade Lotus. The chapter ended with Xiao Tusi dying after Mu Yang effortlessly opened the supposedly inaccessible box.

• Mu Yang bound the Wind-Flow Golden Eagle with a black chain and killed it with two punches, permanently solidifying several equipment items.
• Mu Yang gathered the eagle's blood and corpse, then resumed attacking Medicine King Valley while the witnesses watched in awe.
• Mu Yang collected Medicine King Valley's Sleeve Bags and ten Mountain-Crushing Crossbows after killing everyone Fourth Rank and above.
• Mu Yang carried the dying Xiao Tusi to a secret chamber, where Xiao Tusi revealed that the Blood Jade Lotus was inside a box that supposedly required high-grade Azure Satchel True Qi to open.
• Mu Yang opened the mechanism box without difficulty and took the Blood Jade Lotus, leaving Xiao Tusi so enraged that he spat blood and died.

After killing Xiao Tusi, Mu Yang took Medicine King Valley’s treasury and joined the others as they searched the sect for its human trafficking operation. They found a prison filled with victims of brutal drug trials, and the group left with the realization that only power could stop such abuses.

• Mu Yang searched the treasure chamber after Xiao Tusi’s death and stored Medicine King Valley’s valuables in his Sleeve Bag Space.
• Mu Yang reunited with Lu Zongsong, Gu Lingyun, Zhao Xian, and Gu Tingquan, then joined their search for Medicine King Valley’s trafficking operation.
• Lu Zongsong found an underground prison, and Gu Tingquan immobilized the guards before the group entered.
• The group saw prisoners suffering from horrific drug trials, and Gu Tingquan said most were unlikely to survive.
• Gu Lingyun asked where the prisoners came from, and Gu Tingquan explained that officials and others could sell them amid the struggle between the Demon Slayer Bureau and Six Fan Gate.
• Gu Tingquan sighed that everything came down to power, and Mu Yang agreed that it came down to fists.

Mu Yang left Medicine King Valley and encountered a fourth-rank black bear demon, which he killed after equipping several Dantian Construction Methods and Small Sleeve Bags. While sorting the valley’s treasures in the bear’s cave, he examined the Blood Jade Lotus and its powerful effects.

• Gu Lingyun called after Mu Yang as he rode away from Medicine King Valley, while Gu Tingquan doubted she could compete for his attention.
• Mu Yang equipped five Dantian Construction Methods and two fourth-rank Small Sleeve Bags, then absorbed the true qi they generated.
• Mu Yang killed the black bear demon, permanently solidifying his newly equipped items, and fed some of the demon’s remains to Little Black.
• Mu Yang stored the bear’s corpse and searched its cave, where he began sorting through Medicine King Valley’s treasures.
• Mu Yang examined the sixth-rank Blood Jade Lotus, whose effects included poison immunity, improved cultivation, expanded dantian capacity, greater strength, and enhanced comprehension.

Mu Yang equipped the Blood Jade Lotus and gained stronger comprehension, a larger dantian, and greater physical strength. He then inspected and equipped the Wind-Flow Golden Eagle Corpse, gaining access to its powerful traits.

• Mu Yang examined the Blood Jade Lotus’s five purple traits and judged their effects on his abilities.
• Mu Yang equipped the Blood Jade Lotus, which improved his constitution and comprehension, expanded his main dantian by ten thousand strands of true qi, and increased his physical strength.
• Mu Yang inspected the Wind-Flow Golden Eagle Corpse and found it had nine traits, including enhanced vision, flight, and speed.
• Mu Yang discovered he could change the corpse’s panel suffix by adjusting his understanding of it.
• Mu Yang equipped the Wind-Flow Golden Eagle Corpse.

Mu Yang equipped the Wind-Flow Golden Eagle corpse and gained powerful traits that expanded his strength, senses, and combat options. After awakening golden wings, he flew from his cave and reflected that he could now fight across land, sea, and air.

• Mu Yang refined the Wind-Flow Golden Eagle's Blood Qi, raising his Life Aperture's progress to four-tenths.
• The corpse's traits increased Mu Yang's physical strength by ten million jin and his soul by half, while granting him exceptional golden eyesight.
• Mu Yang tested Flowing Gold Claw and Wind-Flow Blade, finding the claw sharp enough to slice through cave rock.
• Mu Yang manifested Wind-Flow Golden Feathers as a pair of wings and flew out of the cave at extraordinary speed.
• Little Black worried that Mu Yang's ability to fly would make it useless, while Mu Yang concluded he had combat capabilities on land, at sea, and in the air.

Mu Yang tested his new Wind-Flow Golden Eagle abilities and equipped martial methods that brought his Life Aperture close to opening. After Little Black broke through to the Third-Rank Late Stage, Mu Yang set out toward Anling Prefecture.

• Mu Yang decided to seek a Sixth Rank monster in Anling Prefecture and considered pursuing a position as a Territory-Seeking Envoy.
• Mu Yang fed Little Black Wind-Flow Golden Eagle blood and told it the blood might help it learn to Cloud-Step.
• Mu Yang tested Wind-Flow Golden Light, then equipped two Meridian Clearing Methods, two Aperture-Opening Methods, and Mighty Vajra Palm, bringing his Life Aperture to eight-tenths completion.
• Mu Yang wondered whether his combined golden abilities could contend with a Seventh Rank martial artist and planned to find out after reaching Anling Prefecture.
• Little Black broke through to the Third-Rank Late Stage, and Mu Yang rode it out of the forest onto the main road.

Mu Yang collected Fu Yu’s promised reward in Anshun before traveling back to Qinghe Prefecture. There, he learned Lei Sai’s marriage had been arranged with a Mei Family daughter, prompting Zhou Yao to avoid him, and Mu Yang dragged the heartbroken Lei Sai out of the restaurant.

• Mu Yang arrived at the Anshun Prefecture Demon Slayer Bureau branch and reunited with Lei Xing and Fu Ya, who told him Fu Yu was handling the Ghost Lamp Temple dispute.
• Fu Ya transferred Fu Yu’s promised reward to Mu Yang: three Earth Grade Superior merits and seven Earth Grade Inferior merits.
• Mu Yang left Anshun, visited Qingxi County, and continued on to Qinghe Prefecture City.
• At Jixiang Restaurant, Mu Yang met Lei Xing, Lei Jiaojiao, and Mei Cao, and learned the Lei and Mei Families had replaced Lei Jiaojiao and Mei Cao’s marriage alliance with one involving Lei Sai.
• Lei Sai told Mu Yang that Zhou Yao had begun avoiding him after hearing of the arranged marriage, and Mu Yang paid for the meal and hauled Lei Sai out of the restaurant.

Mu Yang returned to Qinghe Prefecture, helped Lei Sai settle his marriage dispute, and collected eleven Earth Grade Superior Merits from Yuan Yin for his mission. Yuan Yin then revealed that he would leave Qinghe Prefecture in five days to become Anling Prefecture’s Evil-Suppressing Vice General.

• Mu Yang brought Lei Sai to the Lei Family estate, where the patriarch agreed to let Lei Sai decide his own marriage after Mu Yang spoke about free love.
• Lei Jiaojiao told Lei Sai to inform Yao Yao that she could leave home again.
• Mu Yang rested at an inn, then visited Yuan Mansion and reunited with Yuan Yuan and Yuan Yin.
• Yuan Yin awarded Mu Yang eleven Earth Grade Superior Merits for the Monsters he encountered during his mission and directed him to Elder Liang to appraise materials.
• Yuan Yin showed Mu Yang his transfer order and said he would become Anling Prefecture’s Evil-Suppressing Vice General in five days.

Yuan Yin told Mu Yang that he had broken through to the True Astral Realm and offered him a special Territory-Seeking Envoy position directly under the Liang Province Pacification Commissioner. Mu Yang accepted the Black Jade Token, and Yuan Yin began teaching him about opening apertures.

• Yuan Yin revealed that he had reached the True Astral Realm, taken the post of Evil-Suppressing Vice General, and handed Qinghe Prefecture's Slayer Commander position to Liang Qing.
• Yuan Yin offered Mu Yang a special Black Jade Token that would make him a Territory-Seeking Envoy reporting directly to the Liang Province Pacification Commissioner, and Mu Yang accepted.
• Yuan Yin explained that the role would send Mu Yang against powerful Monsters and top forces across Liang Province, including threats in dangerous and unexplored areas.
• Yuan Yin kept Xu Xinghe's conditions for Mu Yang's promotion secret and told him to keep the token until he reached Anling Prefecture.
• Yuan Yin taught Mu Yang techniques for opening Body Apertures and offered advice about Spirit Apertures, then began discussing the difficult Life and Soul Apertures.

Yuan Yin explained to Mu Yang and Yuan Yuan the difficulty of opening the Life and Soul Apertures and how a natal Martial Technique shaped a martial artist’s path to the Martial Soul Realm. He warned Mu Yang against pursuing vague, difficult concepts, though his examples of the unmastered Intents of Formlessness and Law-Breaking seemed to catch Mu Yang’s interest.

• Yuan Yin told Yuan Yuan that opening his Life Aperture had taken three years and explained that opening the Soul Aperture was harder still.
• Yuan Yin explained that a natal Martial Technique could help a seventh-rank martial artist comprehend Martial Dao Will and break through to the eighth rank.
• Yuan Yin warned Mu Yang to choose a practical natal Martial Technique rather than one with a vague and ethereal conception.
• Yuan Yin demonstrated Heaven-Seizing Hand and described how its cloud-and-mist intent could develop into palm intent or grappling intent.
• Yuan Yin introduced the unmastered Intents of Formlessness and Law-Breaking, explaining their ambitious effects and why he considered them nearly impossible for human martial artists to master.

Yuan Yin explained the Seventh-Rank True Astral Realm to Mu Yang, who assessed his own strength before agreeing to spar with Yuan Yin. The three left the city for a training valley, where Liang Qing joined them to watch.

• Yuan Yin described how True Astral Force was formed and explained the stages of the True Astral Realm.
• Mu Yang estimated his combat strength and concluded that he could handle Early Stage opponents but might struggle against stronger True Astral martial artists.
• Yuan Yin invited Mu Yang to spar, and Mu Yang accepted to test his abilities against a newly promoted Seventh-Rank martial artist.
• Yuan Yuan worried that her father might injure Mu Yang as they headed to the valley used for the Blessed Land Grand Selection.
• Liang Qing encountered the group and followed them, curious about Mu Yang's progress and the strength of a Seventh-Rank martial artist.

Mu Yang sparred with Yuan Yin and overwhelmed him with a punch despite being a sixth-rank fighter facing a seventh-rank opponent. Yuan Yin recognized Mu Yang as a formidable rival and prepared to use his innate martial skill.

• Yuan Yin invited Mu Yang to strike first, expecting to demonstrate the gap between their ranks.
• Mu Yang activated several traits and charged Yuan Yin, making Yuan Yin and Liang Qing sense his immense power.
• Mu Yang shattered Yuan Yin's Thousand Mountains Locking Mist Hand with a punch and forced him to retreat.
• Yuan Yuan was shocked to see her father step back, while Liang Qing tried to explain that Yuan Yin was less skilled at close combat.
• Yuan Yin took Mu Yang seriously, warned him to be careful, and formed his Heaven-Seizing Hand.

Mu Yang defeated Yuan Yin’s Heaven-Seizing Hand in a spar, then settled his merits, visited friends, and prepared to leave Qinghe Prefecture with Yuan Yin and the others. As they departed, Yuan Yin asked Mu Yang whether he knew anything about the Windcloud Sect.

• Mu Yang shattered Yuan Yin’s Heaven-Seizing Hand with his golden palm, and Yuan Yin called off the spar after realizing Mu Yang had not used his full strength.
• Mu Yang told Yuan Yuan that he had finished opening his Spirit Apertures and confirmed he was still in the Aperture-Opening Realm.
• Mu Yang settled his Demon Slayer Bureau merits, sold his items, and spent seven Earth Grade Inferior merits to buy the Armory’s remaining 350 Qi-Storing Crystals.
• Mu Yang visited acquaintances, and Lei Sai and Zhou Yao told him they were engaged and planned to marry the following month.
• Mu Yang left Qinghe Prefecture with Yuan Yin and the others as friends and officials gathered to see them off.
• Yuan Yin asked Mu Yang whether he knew anything about the Windcloud Sect while they traveled.

Yuan Yin told Mu Yang about the Demon Slayer Bureau’s plan to monitor Windcloud Sect and lure out a powerful ally of the Six Fan Gate, while Mu Yang arranged to take a separate Sixth Rank Monster mission as well. After arriving at the Anling Prefecture Demon Slayer Bureau, Mu Yang saw its elite Black Armored Guard and considered seeking forging-rune manuals in its Armory.

• Yuan Yin explained that Gu Changkong planned to watch Windcloud Sect and use the Blessed Land Grand Selection as a pretext to draw out a major Six Fan Gate figure.
• Mu Yang asked to take both the Windcloud Sect mission and a mission involving a Sixth Rank Monster, and Yuan Yin agreed to help him take them on.
• Mu Yang, Yuan Yin, and Yuan Yuan reached the Anling Prefecture Demon Slayer Bureau after about ten days on the road.
• Mu Yang saw the bureau’s fortress and learned that its Black Armored Guard wore rune-inscribed armor that let them share damage and fight far stronger opponents.
• Mu Yang considered looking for forging-rune skill manuals in the provincial capital’s Armory.

Mu Yang, Yuan Yuan, and Yuan Yin arrived at the Anling General's Residence and met Gu Changkong, the powerful Evil-Suppressing Deputy General. After recognizing Mu Yang's talent in body tempering, Gu Changkong presented him with an ancient cultivation manual.

• Yuan Yin showed his token, and he, Mu Yang, and Yuan Yuan entered the bustling city of the prefectural Demon Slayer Bureau.
• Lu Zongsong greeted them and escorted them to the council hall at the Anling General's Residence.
• Gu Changkong rushed over to embrace Yuan Yin and chided him for not training in body tempering.
• Gu Changkong greeted Yuan Yuan and praised Mu Yang's sturdy bones and skill in body tempering.
• Gu Changkong produced an ancient booklet titled Four Spirits Four Symbols Demon-Suppressing Body for Mu Yang.

Gu Changkong offered Mu Yang the dangerous Four Spirits Four Symbols Demon-Suppressing Body, and Mu Yang eagerly accepted it after learning it could draw powerful Monster Kings to him. The chapter ended with Mu Yang receiving the martial art and its detailed abilities.

• Yuan Yin recognized the Four Spirits Four Symbols Demon-Suppressing Body as Xu Xinghe's renowned Seventh Rank martial art and explained its painful cultivation, demanding soul requirements, and need to hunt powerful Monsters.
• Gu Changkong warned Mu Yang that cultivating the art could provoke powerful Monsters to hunt him, while Yuan Yin clarified that the attackers could include Monster Kings with Rare Bloodlines.
• Mu Yang became excited at the prospect of attracting Rare Bloodline Monsters, and Gu Changkong praised his boldness and promised to protect him from Clearwater Dragon Palace and the Ten Thousand Snake Den.
• Mu Yang accepted the martial art, whose listed traits included four spirit forms, enhanced physique, and the potential to unlock the gold-ranked Four Spirits Four Symbols Demon-Subduing Body.