Chapter Summaries

A Green-Robed Alliance assassin attacked Yi Weijin in his residence, but Yi Weijin’s double and an eighth-realm guard turned the fight against him. As the guard struck, another attacker appeared and rushed toward the real Yi Weijin.

• The green-robed assassin infiltrated Yi Residence and attacked Yi Weijin, who revealed golden armor and fought back with a spear.
• The assassin overwhelmed Yi Weijin, but Yi Weijin activated a talisman barrier and called for his double to intervene.
• Yi Weijin’s seventh-realm double and a cold-faced eighth-realm youth emerged, and the youth wounded the assassin with an azure dagger.
• The youth charged the injured assassin with a silver saber, while a hidden figure swept through the guards and rushed toward Yi Weijin’s true body.

Chen Fan assassinated Yi Weijin in the Yi Residence after using a hired Green-Robed Alliance assassin to expose Yi Weijin’s defenses, then escaped back to the Martial Academy. There, he discovered that the killing had slightly advanced his slaughter true intent.

• Chen Fan, disguised as a Yi Residence guard, struck Yi Weijin after the Green-Robed Alliance assassin drew the guards’ attention, destroying Yi Weijin’s defensive treasure and badly wounding him.
• Chen Fan used two Thunder Shakers to disrupt Yi Weijin’s eighth-layer guard and shatter Yi Weijin’s protective barriers, then killed Yi Weijin and stored his body and head.
• Chen Fan fooled the guard with a dud Thunder Shaker and escaped while the Yi Residence descended into chaos.
• Chen Fan changed his appearance several times to evade pursuit and returned safely to the Martial Academy.
• Chen Fan found that killing Yi Weijin had slightly improved his slaughter true intent and wondered whether its growth depended on his state of mind and hardships.

After killing Yi Weijin, Chen Fan found a Sumeru Ring containing nearly ten thousand Origin Crystals and many talisman treasures, while the Seamless Gate reconsidered its plans. At the Martial Academy, Chen Fan asked Mao Wangchen to teach him more of the Ninefold Thunder Blade before he joined the Embroidered Garment Tower.

• Chen Fan refined Yi Weijin’s Sumeru Ring and discovered it held dozens of talismans and nearly ten thousand Origin Crystals.
• Authorities blamed Yi Weijin’s death on the Seamless Gate after their citywide search found no leads, easing Chen Fan’s worries.
• Seamless Gate operatives discussed abandoning agents who had contacted Yi Weijin and waiting before joining Sect Master Wu’s operation in Seeing Dragon Commandery.
• Mao Wangchen congratulated Chen Fan on killing Yi Weijin and said he could enter the Embroidered Garment Tower after killing Cha Wenxu in the Blood Demon Secret Realm.
• Chen Fan asked Mao Wangchen to teach him the next levels of the Ninefold Thunder Blade early, arguing that he could not afford to lose months of progress.

Chen Fan cultivated to strengthen his abilities and investigated how to overcome the Heavenly Demon's residual Baleful Intent so he could absorb an Earth-grade Fire Spirit. At Jade Treasure Pavilion, he learned that its Heaven-grade mind-calming pills were sold out, but he bought Earth-grade cultivation pills and planned to wait for an auction.

• Mao Wangchen agreed to let Chen Fan study the fourth through sixth levels of the Ninefold Thunder Blade for free, on the condition that he keep it secret until joining the Embroidered Garment Tower.
• Chen Fan delayed the seventh-level Yuan Shang Secret Realm assessment, choosing to improve his cultivation and martial skills before attempting it.
• Chen Fan cultivated in the Myriad Illusions Hall, neared comprehension of fire intent, and learned that absorbing the Fire Spirit would require a Heaven-grade pill to counter the Heavenly Demon's residual Baleful Intent.
• Chen Fan visited Heart-Questioning Hall regularly but had only passed a little over fifty steps, so he concluded that willpower alone was unlikely to overcome the Baleful Intent.
• Chen Fan went to Jade Treasure Pavilion seeking a Heaven-grade mind-calming pill, but the pavilion had sold its last one and advised him to wait for an auction.
• Chen Fan bought several Earth-grade cultivation pills suitable for a seventh-level martial artist.

Chen Fan completed the Thunder-Slaying Sword and continued training while waiting for news from his master. After Zhang Fan told him about an auction, Chen Fan bought a Heaven-tier Heart-Clearing Demon-Expelling Pill and several other treasures, including Thunder Shakers and a Vanishing Trail Talisman.

• Chen Fan completed the Thunder-Slaying Sword and set the Ninefold Thunder Blade to idle training.
• Zhang Fan visited Chen Fan with news that Jade Treasure Pavilion would auction a Heaven-tier Heart-Clearing Demon-Expelling Pill.
• Chen Fan attended the auction in disguise and bought five Thunder Shakers.
• Chen Fan won the bid for the Heart-Clearing Demon-Expelling Pill and several high-tier pills suited to Grandmaster cultivation.
• Chen Fan also bought a Vanishing Trail Talisman, a scarce treasure that could save his life.

Chen Fan entered the Blood Demon Secret Realm, intent on finding and killing Cha Wenxu so he could join the Embroidered Garment Tower. After arriving in the realm, he used a compass to begin tracking his target.

• Chen Fan sold his unwanted spirit artifacts and pills at the auction, then spent most of his Origin Crystals on resources for cultivation.
• As the two-month deadline approached, Chen Fan prepared to kill Cha Wenxu and visited academy head Mao Wangchen to ensure he could locate him inside the secret realm.
• At the secret realm entrance, Chen Fan failed to spot the disguised Cha Wenxu, while the youth entered with Ninth Uncle and other members of the Cha family.
• Chen Fan passed inspection at the Great Qian Martial Academy hall and stepped through its gate into the Blood Demon Secret Realm.
• After reaching a deserted place, Chen Fan opened a jade box and activated a compass that pointed in a direction.

Chen Fan tracked Cha Wenxu through the Blood Demon Secret Realm, collecting a Blood Crystal before entering its dangerous desert region. Elsewhere, a young man and his Grandmaster companion followed a treasure map until another traveler caught up with them.

• Chen Fan used a compass marked by Mao Wangchen to track Cha Wenxu and cautiously crossed the volcanic wilderness.
• Chen Fan killed a sixth-level blood beast and obtained a Blood Crystal, which he stored rather than absorbing.
• Chen Fan followed detours into the desert, where the map was incomplete and the dangers were far greater.
• A sallow-faced young man and his Grandmaster companion traveled through the desert using a treasure map and rested after avoiding powerful blood beasts.
• After hearing a battle nearby, the pair tried to flee, but a figure raced through the desert and arrived before them.

Chen Fan confronted Cha Wenxu in the Blood Demon Secret Realm and fought his eighth-level Grandmaster guard. Cha Wenxu escaped with a talisman while Chen Fan used a Thunder Shaker to blast the guard backward.

• Chen Fan followed his compass to a sallow-faced youth, tested him by calling him Cha Wenxu, and noticed both the youth and his guard react.
• The middle-aged Grandmaster blocked Chen Fan’s attack, and Chen Fan recognized that he was an eighth-level martial artist.
• Chen Fan unleashed his Origin Gallbladder and perfected Thunder-Slaying Sword, broke through the guard’s defense, and shattered Cha Wenxu’s protective spiritual treasure.
• The guard tried to buy time for Cha Wenxu, who used an Escape Light Talisman to flee as Chen Fan continued fighting.
• Chen Fan threw a Thunder Shaker at the guard, whose protective vital energy was torn apart by the explosion.

Chen Fan killed the middle-aged grandmaster and Cha Wenxu to complete his Embroidered Garment Tower assessment missions, then discovered a detailed map among Cha Wenxu’s belongings. He followed its marked route toward a grassland destination, hoping to confirm the map’s accuracy while hunting blood beasts in the Blood Demon Secret Realm.

• Chen Fan used the Thunder Shaker’s blast to break through a grandmaster’s defenses and kill him, then tracked Cha Wenxu with his compass.
• Chen Fan caught up with Cha Wenxu, shattered his defensive talismans, and killed him without revealing why he had been targeted.
• Chen Fan found a silver disguise mask on Cha Wenxu and realized he had completed the assessment missions needed to join the Embroidered Garment Tower.
• Chen Fan discovered a detailed map fragment marking a route to a grassland and locations of peculiar towers, including one in the desert.
• Chen Fan chose to follow the safer route toward the marked destination rather than risk a blood beast nest near the distant tower.
• After traveling for three or four days, Chen Fan was still in the desert, where he encountered mostly lower-level blood beasts and collected several sixth-level blood crystals.

Yu Hengcheng searched Great Qian’s northwest for a seventh-level martial artist with lightning intent, while Pu Zhongyu fought the injured Qing Luo and forced her to flee with a talisman. After the Heavenly Secrets Tower failed to locate Qing Luo, Pu Zhongyu turned to Yu Hengcheng’s search as another lead.

• Yu Hengcheng attacked a Bright Sun Hall disciple with lightning intent, found he was not the person he sought, and was driven away by the academy head when he tried to strike again.
• Qing Luo used a battlefield blood sacrifice to recover and strengthen herself, but Pu Zhongyu interrupted her and attacked her over her younger brother’s death.
• Pu Zhongyu gained the upper hand against the still-injured Qing Luo, who escaped by crushing a talisman and threatened the Pu Clan.
• Pu Zhongyu asked the Heavenly Secrets Tower to locate Qing Luo, but it could not pierce the demoness’s temporary concealment of heavenly secrets.
• Pu Zhongyu decided to follow the lead of Yu Hengcheng, who she expected to have found the person he was searching for.

Chen Fan followed Cha Wenxu’s map through the desert to a vast field of Blood Spirit Flowers, then triggered an attack while collecting them. He used the Vanishing Trail Talisman to escape the enormous creature’s maw, but his fate remained unknown.

• Chen Fan absorbed three Blood Crystals and felt a slight improvement in his body, though their accumulated Killing Intent made further absorption dangerous.
• After half a month following Cha Wenxu’s map, Chen Fan left the desert and entered a forest, deciding to reach the map’s marked treasure site before hunting Blood Beasts.
• Chen Fan found a vast field of Blood Spirit Flowers and questioned how Cha Wenxu had obtained a map to such a valuable place.
• Chen Fan used his sword to collect patches of flowers, but the ground shook and an enormous catfish-like creature erupted beneath him.
• The creature’s bloodlight shattered Chen Fan’s Luminous Robe barrier and its suction trapped him, so he crushed the Vanishing Trail Talisman and vanished.

Chen Fan escaped a blood beast trap and reached a tower buried beneath the sand, but he could not find a way inside. He stayed near the tower, tried to break in, and absorbed Blood Crystals and Blood Spirit Flowers, greatly improving his constitution.

• Chen Fan used a Vanishing Trail Talisman to escape a giant blood beast and kept the Blood Spirit Flowers he had gathered.
• Chen Fan spotted a tower marked on the map and followed a route past blood beasts to reach it.
• Chen Fan found only the tower spire above the sand and failed to locate an entrance or damage its walls.
• Chen Fan spent more than half a month trying to enter the tower while absorbing Blood Crystals and Blood Spirit Flowers.
• Chen Fan's constitution improved by more than twenty percent, and he collapsed after absorbing dozens of the resources.

Chen Fan followed a gray-robed man across the desert, suspecting he knew how to enter the tower and reach the Blood Demon Inheritance. The man attacked him, and Chen Fan countered with his Drawing Sword Technique.

• Chen Fan abandoned his search for a tower token and spent two weeks detouring through the desert while hunting Blood Beasts.
• Chen Fan spotted a gray-robed man fleeing seventh- and eighth-level Blood Beasts and followed him, suspecting he was heading for the tower.
• The gray-robed man noticed Chen Fan near the tower and tested his strength with the power of heaven and earth.
• The gray-robed man accused Chen Fan of coveting his chance at the Blood Demon Inheritance and attacked him with Meteor Chasing the Moon.
• Chen Fan dodged the attack with Thunder Flash, then unleashed his Drawing Sword Technique, prompting the gray-robed man to recognize the Ninefold Thunder Blade.

Chen Fan defeated and killed the gray-robed eighth-level martial artist with his Thunder-Slaying Sword, but a blood light from the man's dagger entered Chen Fan and may have marked him. Searching the corpse, Chen Fan found strange items and a Blood-Colored Stone Sphere.

• The gray-robed man attacked Chen Fan with his staff, but Chen Fan unleashed the Thunder-Slaying Sword and shattered the man's defenses.
• Chen Fan struck the wounded man again with Sword Qi Erodes Heaven, sending him into a deep sand pit and knocking away his staff.
• The man drove a dagger into his own chest as Chen Fan's sword qi cut him in two, and blood light from the dagger passed through Chen Fan's sword and entered his body.
• Chen Fan searched his body for a possible curse or tracking mark but found no abnormality, then collected the man's belongings.
• Chen Fan discovered a heart-sized Blood-Colored Stone Sphere covered in crimson veins among the man's possessions.

Chen Fan used the blood-red stone sphere to raise the buried tower and entered, expecting to find the Blood Demon Inheritance. An enormous owl revealed that the place was a Research Tower and trapped Chen Fan in a blood-red domain.

• Chen Fan fed his blood into the sphere, which awakened and raised the tower from beneath the sand.
• Chen Fan entered the tower, and it sank back beneath the sand behind him.
• An enormous owl confronted Chen Fan and said the last visitor had entered twenty years earlier.
• The owl claimed Chen Fan had come to cooperate in its research, not receive an inheritance.
• The owl sealed the tower in a blood-red light, immobilizing Chen Fan as he tried to use his Vanishing Trail Talisman.
• Chen Fan recognized the owl's power as a Dao Domain.

Chen Fan awoke after the owl implanted a Blood Seed in his body and learned that the Research Tower could be escaped by climbing to its top or earning the Blood Demons’ recognition. He began learning the Blood-Melting Technique, facing a three-year challenge to absorb five hundred Blood Crystals and transform his bloodline.

• The owl implanted a Blood Seed in Chen Fan, causing his body to change and his strength to swell.
• Chen Fan woke, abandoned his plan to flee, and asked the owl what had happened to him.
• The owl explained that Chen Fan needed to climb the Research Tower and could gain the Blood Demons’ recognition by absorbing Blood Crystals.
• The owl revealed that the tower’s Blood Demons included powerful creatures and that the tower researched bloodline alteration.
• The owl set Chen Fan a three-year goal: reach the third level of the Blood-Melting Technique and absorb all five hundred Blood Crystals.
• Chen Fan absorbed the jade slip’s contents and learned the first level of the Blood-Melting Technique.

Chen Fan studied the Blood-Melting Technique, a secret art that used Blood Crystals to raise the limits of a person’s physique, and discovered he could absorb ten crystals before the Killing Intent overwhelmed him. After researching the tower’s records, he went upstairs to fight blood demons and began dissecting their corpses to deepen his understanding of the technique.

• Chen Fan absorbed Blood Crystals with the Blood-Melting Technique and stopped after ten crystals made him spit blood.
• Chen Fan asked the owl how to improve his progress, and the owl directed him to its research records and the blood demons above.
• Chen Fan read the records for several days and learned that the Research Tower had been built to develop and perfect the Blood-Melting Technique.
• Chen Fan went to the second floor, where he killed the attacking blood demons with his sword qi.
• Chen Fan stored several blood demon corpses, returned to the first floor, and dissected them to study their bodies and Blood Crystals.

Chen Fan advanced his Blood-Melting Technique and strengthened his body by absorbing Blood Crystals while capturing increasingly powerful Blood Demons in the trial tower. Outside, Pu Zhongyu and Yu Hengcheng searched for the warrior who had fought Yu Hengcheng, and Chen Fan's name became their next lead.

• Chen Fan studied and dissected sixth- and seventh-realm Blood Demons, advancing his Blood-Melting Technique and later beginning to idle its second level.
• Chen Fan absorbed Blood Crystals until he had grown over two meters tall, then began capturing stronger Blood Demons and finally caught an eighth-realm Blood Demon alive.
• Pu Zhongyu and Yu Hengcheng continued searching for the person Yu Hengcheng had fought, but Yu Hengcheng confirmed their latest seventh-realm target was not him.
• Yu Hengcheng gave Pu Zhongyu information about possible sixth-realm warriors with Lightning Intent, including Chen Fan.
• Pu Zhongyu doubted that seventeen-year-old Chen Fan could be the warrior they sought.

Pu Zhongyu and Yu Hengcheng identified Chen Fan as their likely target, but learned he was in the Blood Demon Secret Realm and postponed confronting him. Meanwhile, Chen Fan continued cultivating there and saw how slowly his grandmaster-level progress advanced despite using an expensive earth-grade pill.

• Yu Hengcheng told Pu Zhongyu that Chen Fan’s lightning intent, record of defeating a grandmaster, and background made him their likeliest target.
• Pu Zhongyu and Yu Hengcheng went to Clear River Commandery and confirmed Chen Fan had entered the Star Sect Underground Palace and later applied to the Blood Demon Secret Realm.
• Yu Hengcheng revealed that the Crown Prince had recommended Chen Fan to the Embroidered Garment Tower, and that Chen Fan had not returned from the Blood Demon Secret Realm.
• Pu Zhongyu decided to investigate other suspects and monitor Chen Fan, then returned to her clan after its disciples were attacked by an unknown assailant.
• Chen Fan cultivated in the research tower, swallowed a Xuanyuan True Qi Pill, and found it had raised his True Technique progress by only three percent.

After completing the third level of Blood-Melting Technique and absorbing the remaining Blood Crystals, Chen Fan released the Profound Yang Fire Spirit and comprehended Fire Intent by observing its flames. He began absorbing the spirit, but its residual heavenly demon Baleful Intent awakened the violence within him and turned his eyes blood-red.

• Chen Fan completed the third level of Blood-Melting Technique, absorbed the remaining Blood Crystals, and learned that Blood Demons would no longer attack him.
• Chen Fan chose to absorb the Profound Yang Fire Spirit before climbing the tower, trusting his strengthened body and completed Spirit Absorption Art.
• Chen Fan released the Fire Spirit and observed its flames, breaking through the final boundary of Blazing Fire Sword and comprehending Fire Intent.
• Chen Fan used Spirit Absorption Art to draw the Fire Spirit into his body as it resisted with its remaining power.
• The Fire Spirit's residual heavenly demon Baleful Intent surged into Chen Fan's mind, stirred the violence left by the blood seed, and turned his eyes blood-red.