Chapter Summaries

Mu Yang obtained the golden Four Spirits Four Symbols Demon-Subduing Body and joined Gu Changkong's plan to target the Windcloud Sect. He searched for a suitable Monster-hunting mission before heading northwest, but had not yet chosen one.

• Mu Yang admired the golden Four Spirits Four Symbols Demon-Subduing Body entry and considered whether it could become his Natal Martial Skill.
• Gu Changkong assigned Yuan Yin to monitor the Windcloud Sect for a month and capture Yun Qianzhong and Feng Lie alive if no Six Fan Gate agents appeared.
• Gu Changkong warned Mu Yang not to cultivate the Seventh Rank body-tempering art until he reached the Seventh Rank.
• Lu Zongsong took Mu Yang to the private mission office, where he requested an Earth Grade Superior Monster mission northwest of Anling Prefecture.
• The steward showed Mu Yang a late Sixth Rank Swiftshadow Leopard Demon and a middle Sixth Rank Hopping Sheep Demon, but Mu Yang continued searching for a better option.

Mu Yang chose a Violet Lightning Bat Demon hunt in Thunderclap Valley and visited the Prefecture City Armory to acquire martial arts for opening his life-soul dual apertures. After selecting several methods, he reached the catalog’s special section of fragmentary martial skills.

• Mu Yang accepted the mission to hunt the Violet Lightning Bat Demon in Thunderclap Valley.
• Lu Zongsong brought Mu Yang to the Prefecture City Armory, where Elder Yao directed him to the exchange catalogs.
• Mu Yang reviewed the available martial arts and decided to postpone exchanging for a True Astral Tempering Method until he opened his life-soul dual apertures.
• Mu Yang exchanged for eight Aperture-Opening Methods and their related Dantian Construction and Meridian Clearing Methods.
• Mu Yang searched the seventh-rank Martial Techniques for a potential innate Martial Technique, then found the Catalog of Fragmentary Martial Skills.

Mu Yang discovered that the fragmentary Record of the Destruction of Ten Thousand Techniques could unlock the Intent of Law-Breaking if he mastered enough Seventh Rank martial techniques and True Astral Force attributes. He exchanged for it and found that its traits were real, leaving him eager to fulfill its conditions.

• Mu Yang read about several failed fragmentary martial techniques before finding the Record of the Destruction of Ten Thousand Techniques.
• Mu Yang realized his ten-attribute true qi and ability to equip martial techniques might let him meet the record’s impossible requirements.
• Mu Yang exchanged ten Earth Grade Superior Merits for one Heaven Grade Inferior Merit and obtained the record with Lu Zongsong’s help.
• Mu Yang inspected the record’s traits and learned that mastering different Seventh Rank techniques and True Astral Force attributes could eventually activate the Intent of Law-Breaking.

Mu Yang assessed the powerful entries he had obtained and arranged to trade sparring sessions with Lu Zongsong for the sixth-rank demon corpses he hunted. Seven days later, Mu Yang arrived at Thunderclap Valley, where he faced a vast gorge beneath perpetual thunderclouds.

• Mu Yang concluded that activating the Intent of Law-Breaking entry could give him a Martial Dao Will and bring him halfway to the eighth rank, but he needed more merits and activation counts.
• Lu Zongsong told Mu Yang he had accepted a mission involving a sixth-rank demon, and Mu Yang offered to buy the demon corpses he hunted for twice the Armory's price.
• Lu Zongsong asked to exchange the corpses for sparring sessions, and Mu Yang agreed to spar with him whenever he was in Anling Prefecture.
• Mu Yang suggested sparring that day, but Lu Zongsong declined because he was close to opening his Life Aperture.
• Seven days later, Mu Yang rode Little Black to Thunderclap Valley, where constant thunder and charged air filled the enormous gorge.

Mu Yang entered Thunderclap Valley to hunt the Violet Lightning Bat Demon and used his Golden Eyes to locate it in the storm clouds. The demon rushed him in the air, but Mu Yang met its Thunderclap Claw with a golden punch and sent it flying, leaving the fight underway.

• Mu Yang left Little Black in a concealed spot and entered Thunderclap Valley, where purple lightning repeatedly struck at him.
• Mu Yang used Golden Eyes to spot the Violet Lightning Bat Demon hiding in the thunderclouds.
• Mu Yang spread his Flowing Gold Wings and flew toward the demon.
• The Violet Lightning Bat Demon activated Thunder Wings, charged Mu Yang, and attacked with its Thunderclap Claw.
• Mu Yang activated his Indestructible Vajra Glazed Body and Flowing Gold Claw, punched the demon, and sent it flying with twisted claws and bleeding purple blood.

Mu Yang chased the Violet Lightning Bat Demon into Thunderclap Valley’s central storm, where it tried to kill him with Violet Ultimate Heavenly Thunder. Mu Yang dodged its attack, killed it with a punch, and then searched its aura for the location of its lair.

• The Violet Lightning Bat Demon fled deeper into Thunderclap Valley, healing its claws with lightning as Mu Yang pursued it.
• The demon reached the valley’s central storm and gathered lightning to summon Violet Ultimate Heavenly Thunder.
• Mu Yang activated Wind-Flow Golden Light and accelerated past the demon’s prediction, causing its lightning strike to miss.
• The Violet Lightning Bat Demon tried to block Mu Yang with Thunderclap Claw, but Mu Yang shattered its claw and punched its head apart.
• Mu Yang stored the demon’s corpse, permanently solidified several equipped items, and used a wisp of its aura to search for its lair.

Mu Yang followed the Violet Lightning Bat Demon's aura to an underground cave filled with Violet Origin Thunder Crystal Ore and collected the vein. He returned with the ore and considered using it to enhance the Tier 6 Violet Lightning Bat Demon corpse he possessed.

• Mu Yang followed the Violet Lightning Bat Demon's aura into a deep cave and discovered Violet Origin Thunder Crystal Ore embedded in its walls.
• Mu Yang identified the small and medium ores' traits and found three medium-sized pieces recently excavated by the Violet Lightning Bat Demon.
• Mu Yang used Earth Escape to locate and retrieve a large piece of Violet Origin Thunder Crystal Ore, then searched the cave for more.
• Mu Yang collected one large, sixteen medium, and four hundred fifty-six small pieces of Violet Origin Thunder Crystal Ore.
• Mu Yang considered using the ore to enhance his Tier 6 Violet Lightning Bat Demon corpse, whose traits included Violet Ultimate Heavenly Thunder.

Mu Yang strengthened the Violet Lightning Bat Demon corpse with Violet Origin Thunder Crystal Ores, raising nearly all its attributes to purple quality. He equipped the corpse, gaining a powerful item with enhanced physical abilities, perception, flight, lightning attacks, and recovery.

• Mu Yang assessed the Violet Lightning Bat Demon's attributes and decided which ones to strengthen.
• Mu Yang turned small Violet Origin Thunder Crystal Ores into three-attribute blue materials and used them to strengthen the corpse.
• Mu Yang raised the corpse to +6, making seven attributes purple and leaving Thunderstrike blue.
• Mu Yang discovered that purple Thunder Devouring could absorb other people's lightning techniques and heal injuries.
• Mu Yang equipped the Violet Lightning Bat Demon corpse.

Mu Yang opened his Life Aperture, greatly increasing his strength and soul power, then equipped two cultivation manuals and began forming their Spirit Forms. After enduring escalating pain, he successfully created all four Spirit Forms and resolved to pass the martial art on.

• Mu Yang opened his Life Aperture, unified his five Body Apertures, and gained enough strength and soul power to surpass the boost from his true qi.
• Mu Yang tested his expanded electromagnetic perception and Thunder Wings, finding he could sense targets up to 26 kilometers away in Thunderclap Valley and move at tremendous speed.
• Mu Yang equipped the Four Spirits Four Symbols Demon-Suppressing Body and the Record of the Destruction of Ten Thousand Techniques, learning that the latter contained no substantive cultivation method.
• Mu Yang divided his soul to create the Azure Dragon Spirit, Vermilion Bird Spirit, White Tiger Spirit, and Black Tortoise Spirit, enduring increasingly severe pain.
• Mu Yang completed all four Spirit Forms and decided the martial art should be passed down in full for humanity's future.

After opening his Life Aperture, Mu Yang began opening his Soul Aperture and set out with Little Black for Windcloud Cliff. Five days later, the sixth-rank Hopping Sheep Demon was grazing on Tender Grass Prairie when a dark thundercloud appeared overhead.

• Mu Yang examined his four spirits and newly opened Life Aperture, planning to inscribe the Intent of Law-Breaking once it was activated.
• Mu Yang equipped four Gleaming Gold and Raging Tide methods and spent an hour opening his Soul Aperture, advancing its progress by a little more than one-tenth.
• Mu Yang flew out of Thunderclap Valley, fed Little Black demon blood and meat, and rode with him toward Windcloud Cliff.
• Five days later, the Hopping Sheep Demon grazed on Tender Grass Prairie and complained that the grass near Windcloud Cliff tasted tough.
• A dark rain cloud filled with purple lightning appeared above the prairie.

Mu Yang tested whether Sinking Rain could create the conditions for Violet Ultimate Heavenly Thunder and used it to kill a sixth-tier Hopping Sheep Demon. He enhanced the demon’s corpse into +6 equipment, gaining violet-quality traits including an improved Bounding Leap.

• Mu Yang gathered artificial rain clouds and struck the Hopping Sheep Demon with Violet Ultimate Heavenly Thunder, killing it and permanently solidifying his equipped equipment and techniques.
• Mu Yang reached the corpse, let Little Black eat some roasted mutton, and inspected the Hopping Sheep Demon’s traits.
• Mu Yang enhanced the corpse’s Soul Strengthening and Horn Charge traits from white to blue quality.
• Mu Yang used Violet Origin Thunder Crystal Ore to enhance the corpse to +6, raising four traits to violet quality and improving Bounding Leap so it could create temporary footholds in midair.

Mu Yang strengthened himself with a Hopping Sheep Demon corpse and several martial arts manuals before continuing toward Windcloud Cliff, where Little Black reached third-rank Perfection. Meanwhile, Tang Hao and Han Bo spotted Li Cang and Zhao Linjing approaching Windcloud Sect and decided to alert Yuan Yin.

• Mu Yang equipped the Hopping Sheep Demon corpse, gaining strength, soul power, Life Aperture progress, and greater aerial agility.
• Mu Yang equipped four martial arts manuals, further advancing his Life Aperture, then continued toward Windcloud Cliff on Little Black.
• Little Black broke through to third-rank Perfection on the journey.
• Tang Hao and Han Bo used a Thousand-Li Mirror to spot Li Cang, Zhao Linjing, and another woman near Windcloud Sect.
• Tang Hao recognized Li Cang as a formidable seventh-rank Six Fan Gate constable and told Han Bo to keep watching while he notified Yuan Yin.

Li Cang, Hu Hui, and Zhao Linjing waited in Windcloud Town, hoping to lure the Demon Slayer Bureau into an ambush. Yuan Yin recognized their group as a dangerous potential trap and was considering calling for reinforcements when Mu Yang arrived.

• Hu Hui told Li Cang and Zhao Linjing that their cover had been discovered and that they could use the discovery to lure in a powerful target.
• Zhao Linjing gave Li Cang a Blood-Calling Pill and Hu Hui a Heavenly Fragrance Soul-Nourishing Pill, then asked them to leave Demon Slayer Bureau members alive for her revenge.
• Li Cang promised to help Zhao Linjing in the future, and Hu Hui offered her support as well.
• Tang Hao reported the group’s identities to Yuan Yin, who recognized the danger posed by Li Cang’s wolf bloodline and Hu Hui’s illusions and suspected they were baiting the Demon Slayer Bureau.
• Yuan Yin considered requesting reinforcements, but Tang Hao detected someone in the forest and Yuan Yin realized it was Mu Yang.

Mu Yang convinced Yuan Yin and the others that he could contend with the Seventh Rank Half-Demon Li Cang, then proposed a plan to draw out their enemies at the Windcloud Sect. The group agreed to use Mu Yang’s feint while Yuan Yin waited in ambush.

• Mu Yang learned that Li Cang was a Seventh Rank Early Stage Half-Demon and insisted that he could fight him even if he had reached Middle Stage.
• Yuan Yin told Tang Hao and the other Territory-Seeking Envoys that Mu Yang’s strength rivaled his own and treated him as a Seventh Rank Early Stage martial artist.
• Yuan Yin warned that Li Cang had likely reached Seventh Rank Middle Stage, but Mu Yang declared that they should take the risk and fight.
• Mu Yang stopped the group from rushing straight to the Windcloud Sect and proposed that he lead four Territory-Seeking Envoys through the main gate while Yuan Yin waited in ambush.
• Yuan Yin accepted Mu Yang’s plan, and the group prepared to use the feint against Li Cang and the Six Fan Gate.

Li Cang and his companions waited at Windcloud Sect for the Demon Slayer Bureau to take the bait, while Mu Yang and four Territory-Seeking Envoys attacked the sect. The chapter ended as Li Cang struck at Mu Yang and Mu Yang met his punch with a golden-lit hand.

• Yun Qianzhong and Feng Lie respectfully received Li Cang, Hu Hui, and Zhao Linjing at Windcloud Sect.
• A disciple reported that the Demon Slayer Bureau had attacked, and Li Cang led the others out to confront them.
• Mu Yang and the four Territory-Seeking Envoys killed Windcloud Sect disciples at the gates.
• Mu Yang sensed Hu Hui and Zhao Linjing hiding nearby, while Li Cang mistook the hidden Evil-Suppressing General for a weak opponent.
• Li Cang rushed Mu Yang with an azure-blue True Astral Force punch, and Mu Yang raised a golden-lit hand to meet it.

Mu Yang fought Li Cang to a standstill and then gained the upper hand, while Hu Hui tried to help with her Bewitching Phantom Charm. Mu Yang broke her illusion and left her unconscious, and Zhao Linjing was left panicking beside her.

• Mu Yang blocked Li Cang's punch without taking a step back, shocking the Windcloud Sect disciples, Tang Hao, and the other Territory-Seeking Envoys.
• Li Cang unleashed his full strength, but Mu Yang matched his speed and attacks, while Yuan Yin watched for the other hidden Six Fan Gate constables.
• Hu Hui used Bewitching Phantom Charm to create an illusion for Mu Yang, but he shattered it with his Golden Eyes and inflicted backlash on her.
• Hu Hui tried to retreat but became trapped in darkness and lost control of her body.
• Hu Hui collapsed unconscious, and Zhao Linjing cried out to her in alarm.

Mu Yang used Five Senses Manipulation to exploit Li Cang’s Blood Moon State, then unleashed his strongest attacks and killed him. With Li Cang dead, the battle ended at the mountain wall where his body crashed.

• Li Cang broke free of Mu Yang’s first strike by taking a Blood-Calling Pill and entering the Blood Moon State.
• Li Cang mistook Mu Yang for an illusion and slaughtered six people, including Windcloud Sect disciples, before realizing Mu Yang had manipulated his senses.
• Li Cang entered Blood Moon State · Moon Return, abandoning reason to become immune to illusions.
• Mu Yang activated his combat traits and Indestructible Vajra techniques, then struck Li Cang’s head with a powerful golden fist.
• Li Cang’s head exploded, and his body crashed into a mountain wall, killing the Six Fan Gate Silver Constable.

Mu Yang killed Li Cang, Yun Qianzhong, Feng Lie, and Zhao Linjing, then captured Hu Hui alive and returned to Windcloud Cliff. After equipping seven more martial arts, he went to solidify them while the others guarded Hu Hui.

• Mu Yang killed Li Cang, then killed Yun Qianzhong and Feng Lie and took their sleeve pouches.
• Mu Yang flew after Zhao Linjing and Hu Hui, killed Zhao Linjing with a Thunderstrike, and brought the unconscious Hu Hui back alive.
• Yuan Yin, Tang Hao, and the other Demon Slayer Bureau envoys wiped out the leaderless Windcloud Sect.
• Mu Yang ordered Tang Hao and the others to guard Hu Hui and keep her alive, then equipped seven martial arts that advanced his Soul Aperture progress by a fifth.
• Mu Yang went to Hu Hui's holding place to solidify the equipped martial arts while Tang Hao struggled to keep his composure near her.

Mu Yang used enhanced Chilling Corpse Poison to kill Hu Hui and turn her into a Drowned Corpse, then activated his Water Ghost Minion trait to transform her. A ghostly phantom emerged from the back of Hu Hui’s head, but the chapter ended before her transformation was confirmed.

• Mu Yang visited the captured Hu Hui after Tang Hao left the side hall.
• Mu Yang pressed his palm against Hu Hui and used purple Chilling Corpse Poison to kill her and make her a Drowned Corpse.
• Mu Yang saw that Hu Hui’s soul remained within her body and activated the Water Ghost Minion trait.
• Hu Hui’s restored corpse knelt before Mu Yang as a ghostly green light expanded into a blurry phantom from the back of her head.

Mu Yang fed Hu Hui the Drowned Corpse and Li Cang’s corpse, restoring her power and transforming her into a Ghost King. After assimilating her, he continued equipping martial arts, bringing his Soul Aperture’s progress to over two-thirds.

• Hu Hui devoured the Drowned Corpse, regained her abilities, and reached Sixth Rank Perfection.
• Mu Yang gave Hu Hui Li Cang’s corpse, and she absorbed its essence, increasing her divine soul strength to forty-five cup-lamps and becoming a Ghost King.
• Mu Yang assimilated Hu Hui with the Ghost Lamp Dragon-Subduing Technique, gaining 4.5 million jin of strength in one arm.
• Mu Yang equipped three Aperture-Opening Methods, raising his Soul Aperture’s progress to over two-thirds.
• Mu Yang reviewed the Aperture-Opening Methods and Visualization Diagrams he had collected from Li Cang, Hu Hui, Zhao Linjing, Yun Qianzhong, and Feng Lie.