Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan absorbed the Profound Yang Fire Spirit and climbed the tower, studying the Blood Demons while testing the limits of his Blood-Melting Technique. On the Longevity Realm floor, a sane Blood Demon revealed that the tower’s rules concealed the true purpose of the technique: preparing people to bear the God-Defying Blood as research subjects.

• Chen Fan used a Heaven-rank Heart-Clearing Demon-Expelling Pill to calm the Heavenly Demon Remnant Baleful Intent, then absorbed the Profound Yang Fire Spirit and advanced his Intent of Fire.
• Chen Fan climbed the tower under the protection of the Blood-Melting Technique and studied the Blood Demons, killing a ninth-level one with the Sword-Nurturing Form for further examination.
• Chen Fan reached the floor with a tenth-level Blood Demon, but its strength stopped him from gaining insight or making contact.
• Chen Fan met a sane Longevity Realm Blood Demon, who recognized his rapid progress in the Blood-Melting Technique and explained that the technique was meant to alter his bloodline.
• The Blood Demon revealed that those who reached the third level within three years could leave the Research Tower because they could initially bear the power of the God-Defying Blood and qualify as research subjects.

Chen Fan learned that mastering the Blood-Melting Technique would force him to absorb God-Defying Blood, and Simo taught him its first two levels. Afterward, Simo revealed he came from the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect and had once known the dynasty as Great Yong.

• Simo explained that cultivators who mastered the Blood-Melting Technique within three years received God-Defying Blood, which could eventually overwhelm them if they could not advance the technique.
• Chen Fan asked Simo for guidance, and Simo showed him the blood flowing through his body to teach him the first and second levels of the Blood-Melting Technique.
• Chen Fan returned to the Blood Demon Tower with his comprehension greatly improved, allowing him to expect to complete the fourth level in a few months.
• Simo told Chen Fan his name and said he came from the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect in the central continent, not Great Yong.
• Chen Fan told Simo that Great Yong had been destroyed nearly a thousand years earlier and was now called Great Qian.

Chen Fan absorbed the God-Defying Blood at the top of the Blood Demon Tower, gaining immense physical strength and new bloodline abilities. He left with the means to change his size and a dangerous berserk technique, while Simo entrusted him with a token for the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect.

• Simo told Chen Fan that absorbing the God-Defying Blood would let him alter his body size, then gave him a token to return to the Heaven-Splitting Sword Sect.
• Chen Fan climbed to the top of the Blood Demon Tower and absorbed the God-Defying Blood, causing his body to grow to several zhang tall.
• Chen Fan woke with his Blood-Melting Technique greatly advanced and his Spirit Tempering Art close to completing its third level.
• Chen Fan learned that he had inherited two innate divine abilities: changing his body size and igniting his bloodline for a brief burst of power.
• Chen Fan named the abilities the Transformation Technique and Berserk, but decided not to test Berserk because it could kill him within ten breaths.

After escaping the tower, Chen Fan used his transformed bloodline to hunt Blood Beasts and gather Blood Crystals, then planned to return to the desert outskirts. Meanwhile, Han Cheng continued training in the outer region and encountered a Blood Beast stronger than the ones he expected.

• Chen Fan left the tower, returned to the desert, and set out to hunt Blood Beasts, but found the Blood Spirit Flower patch had disappeared.
• Chen Fan discovered that most Blood Beasts did not attack him, then ambushed and killed every beast in a nest, including its ninth-level guardian.
• Chen Fan spent half a month clearing several ninth-level Blood Beast nests and collected four to five hundred Blood Crystals.
• Chen Fan decided to return to the outskirts rather than risk facing Blood Beasts above the tenth level.
• Han Cheng prepared to lure sixth-level Blood Beasts from a familiar nest, but heard a cry indicating a Blood Beast at the seventh level or above.

Chen Fan rescued Ancient Giant Spirit and Han Cheng from an eighth-level blood beast, killing it with a single sword strike. Ancient Giant Spirit and Han Cheng thanked him, but Chen Fan left without giving his name.

• Chen Fan wondered whether the Research Tower replenished the blood beasts and vowed to uncover the secrets behind the God-Defying Blood.
• Chen Fan spotted a distress signal and rushed to find Ancient Giant Spirit and Han Cheng battling an eighth-level blood beast.
• Chen Fan killed the blood beast with one sword strike, astonishing Ancient Giant Spirit and Han Cheng.
• Han Cheng learned that Ancient Giant Spirit had secretly followed him through the secret realm to protect him.
• Ancient Giant Spirit asked Chen Fan for his name and offered a reward, but Chen Fan declined and left.

After escaping the Blood Demon Secret Realm, Chen Fan returned to the Martial Academy and learned that he had qualified to join the Embroidered Garment Tower. Meanwhile, the death of Su He prompted a group in the Western Wasteland to hunt Chen Fan, and Yu Hengcheng rushed to Clear River Commandery to confront him before he became an envoy.

• Chen Fan emerged from the Blood Demon Secret Realm, while four robed figures in the Western Wasteland learned he had killed Su He and set out to find and kill him.
• Mao Wangchen summoned Chen Fan, who explained that he had been trapped in a hidden place in the realm and confirmed that Cha Wenxu and his Grandmaster bodyguard had died.
• Mao Wangchen contacted the Embroidered Garment Tower to advance Chen Fan's application, and Chen Fan visited Zhang Fan and the other disciples, learning their master had left no address.
• Yu Hengcheng learned that Chen Fan had returned and was undergoing the Embroidered Garment Tower trial, so he hurried to Clear River Commandery to act before Chen Fan became an envoy.

Chen Fan completed his initiation mission and qualified to join the Embroidered Garment Tower. Cheng Caiying brought him to the Tower’s inconspicuous Clear River Commandery branch hall, where his new role began.

• Chen Fan trained in the Myriad Illusions Hall, enduring its lightning with his body and studying Fire Intent with the Fire Spirit’s help.
• Chen Fan experimented with combining Lightning Intent and Fire Intent, but the unstable power nearly exploded and proved impossible to control.
• Cheng Caiying verified the ten heads Chen Fan had brought and confirmed that he had completed the initiation mission.
• Cheng Caiying introduced herself and told Chen Fan that he had become an Embroidered Garment Envoy, then took him to the branch hall in the prefectural city.
• Cheng Caiying explained that the branch hall handled missions and rewards while Embroidered Garment Envoys traveled wherever their duties took them.

Chen Fan officially joined the Embroidered Garment Tower, received its identity token, Lifebound Soul Lamp, high-grade uniform, and a spirit saber, and learned about the organization’s ranks and powerful leaders. He began as a Human Tower disciple despite believing his strength was approaching the Heavenly Tower’s level.

• Cheng Caiying had Chen Fan bind a jade token and Lifebound Soul Lamp, officially registering him as an Embroidered Garment Tower disciple.
• Cheng Caiying explained that the token recorded Chen Fan’s identity, enabled communication and distress calls, and connected him to the Tower’s information network.
• Cheng Caiying gave Chen Fan a high-grade spirit-artifact uniform, and Chen Fan chose a high-grade spirit saber.
• Cheng Caiying explained the Human, Earthly, and Heavenly Towers and revealed that the Tower’s chief had surpassed the tenth level and reached the Longevity Realm.
• Chen Fan accepted that he would start as a Human Tower disciple and judged that his strength was not far from the Heavenly Tower’s level.

After joining the Embroidered Garment Tower, Chen Fan gained access to secret canons and its powerful intelligence network. While reviewing the Seamless Gate’s activities in Clear River Commandery, he discovered that Peng Wansha had begun selling intelligence soon after Zihong Gate fell, and found something suspicious in the case file.

• Chen Fan chose the complete Ninefold Thunder Blade and a fire-intent martial art as the two secret canons he could cultivate.
• Chen Fan reviewed confidential intelligence and learned about the Seamless Gate’s hierarchy, recruitment, and extensive network of suspected collaborators in Clear River Commandery.
• Chen Fan learned that he could take assassination missions against people linked to the Seamless Gate without concealing his identity.
• Chen Fan found Peng Wansha’s name among those selling intelligence to the Seamless Gate and read his detailed case file.
• Chen Fan noticed Peng Wansha had started selling intelligence shortly after Zihong Gate collapsed and reacted to a discovery in the file.

Chen Fan discovered that Peng Wansha had repeatedly sold information about his movements to the Seamless Gate, but decided to use him as bait rather than kill him immediately. He accepted missions to build experience and test his strength, while a group of foreign tribesmen tracked him to the Martial Academy and waited for a chance to strike.

• Chen Fan found his name and records of his departures from the Martial Academy among the intelligence Peng Wansha had sold to the Seamless Gate, and considered using Peng Wansha to lure out a powerful enemy.
• Chen Fan chose an arrest mission in Ancient Tea Commandery targeting Qin Yanghua, a suspected eighth-level cultivator linked to the Seamless Gate, and began investigating through the Embroidered Garment Tower’s network.
• Three gray-robed foreign tribesmen followed a special mirror to the Martial Academy, resolved to kill Chen Fan for killing Su He, and waited rather than attack inside the school.
• Chen Fan traveled to Ancient Tea Commandery and completed several Martial Academy missions within two days using the Embroidered Garment Tower’s intelligence channels.

Chen Fan rapidly completed Martial Academy missions while pursuing an Embroidered Garment Tower target, and Yu Hengcheng failed to track him down after learning he had become an Embroidered Garment Envoy. In Ancient Tea Commandery, Chen Fan confronted the Origin Aspect Sect over Qin Yanghua and demonstrated his overwhelming speed to its sect master.

• Chen Fan completed several high-reward missions and set out to find Qin Yanghua while three alien warriors followed him using a special mark.
• Yu Hengcheng learned that Chen Fan's records had been sealed after he joined the Embroidered Garment Tower, then decided to wait for him at the local branch.
• Chen Fan arrived at the Origin Aspect Sect with soldiers and commanders from Ancient Tea Commandery and ordered them to surround the mountain.
• The Origin Aspect Sect's master greeted Chen Fan respectfully, while a young girl questioned why he had come for Qin Yanghua.
• Chen Fan demanded that the sect hand over Qin Yanghua, then drew and sheathed his sword so quickly that he scorched the sect master's hair before the old man could react.

Chen Fan forced the Origin Aspect Sect to surrender Qin Yanghua, then led him away as a prisoner. On the journey back, three gray-robed pursuers ambushed Chen Fan, and he killed one of them with a single sword strike.

• Chen Fan threatened the Origin Aspect Sect Master, who agreed to hand over Qin Yanghua to save the sect.
• Qin Yanghua came out willingly, and Chen Fan's officers shackled him and began escorting him away.
• Chen Fan sensed an ambush in a bamboo grove and ordered his soldiers to fall back as three gray-robed men attacked.
• Chen Fan repelled the three attackers with his Thunder Blade and pursued them after judging their strength.
• Chen Fan killed the foremost gray-robed man with his Thunder-Slaying Sword and turned toward the other two.

Chen Fan defeated the Tarro Tribe warriors tracking him through Su He's Death Trace Mark and learned that a Tracking Mirror had led them to him. After discovering the mark still exposed his location, he decided to strike at the tribe's High Priest, Japar, but first caught and killed the escaped Qin Yanghua.

• Chen Fan killed two gray-robed Tarro Tribe warriors and chased down the third, who revealed that their Tracking Mirror had tracked Chen Fan through Su He's Death Trace Mark.
• Chen Fan learned that the warriors served the Tarro Tribe of the Western Wasteland, worshipped the Blood God, and had been sent by High Priest Japar to avenge Su He.
• Chen Fan killed the last Tarro Tribe warrior and realized that only a skilled western frontier witch doctor could remove his Death Trace Mark, leaving Japar able to track him.
• Chen Fan returned to find that Qin Yanghua had escaped after injuring two commanders, then followed the trail left by the pursuing officers and soldiers.
• Chen Fan caught Qin Yanghua and killed him with a sword strike after Qin Yanghua surrendered.

After completing his first Embroidered Garment Tower mission, Chen Fan investigated the Tarro Tribe and traveled to Mountaincloud City to prepare for a strike into the Western Wasteland. He accepted a mission from two daughters of the Moon Mountain Tribe to rescue their captured father, giving him a pretext to approach the Tarro Tribe.

• Chen Fan submitted Qin Yanghua's mission, earned a small amount of contribution, and used the Embroidered Garment Tower's intelligence to investigate the Tarro Tribe.
• Chen Fan learned in Mountaincloud City that the Azure Python Army had been sent northeast to suppress a rebellion and that the Tarro Tribe was allied with demonic beasts.
• Wendona and Saiyiti sought help rescuing their father, the captured chieftain of the Moon Mountain Tribe, before the Tarro Tribe's sacrifice to Heaven.
• Chen Fan accepted the sisters' mission, intending to use it as a convenient way to act against the Tarro Tribe.

Chen Fan learned how to temporarily conceal his Death Trace Mark and set out alone for the Tarro Tribe to assassinate High Priest Japar and rescue Wendona and Saiyiti’s clansmen. Japar mistakenly believed the mark’s disappearance meant his agents had completed their mission, while Chen Fan crossed into the Western Wasteland and noticed the demon beasts had grown unusually scarce.

• Wendona told Chen Fan that the Tarro Tribe planned to sacrifice her father and other captives at its festival in three days, and Saiyiti offered their tribe’s sacred relic in exchange for their rescue.
• Saiyiti explained that she could conceal Chen Fan’s Death Trace Mark for up to a week, and Chen Fan gathered the required materials through the Embroidered Garment Tower’s channels.
• Japar sensed that the Death Trace Mark in Great Qian had disappeared and wrongly assumed his agents had killed Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan left Wendona and Saiyiti behind and crossed the pass alone, intending to assassinate Japar during the festival.
• Chen Fan noticed that demon beasts had become unusually scarce near the border and learned that groups of martial artists were entering the Western Wasteland to seek resources and hunt beasts.

Chen Fan infiltrated the Tarro Tribe and attacked High Priest Japar during the tribe’s sacrificial ceremony. Japar evaded Chen Fan’s strikes with Wind Intent as the Warriors of God surrounded them, and Chen Fan continued fighting.

• Chen Fan reached the Tarro Tribe, disguised himself, and gathered intelligence while waiting for its sacrificial ceremony.
• At the ceremony, Japar arrived on a white tiger and ordered the bound offerings brought forward.
• Chen Fan revealed himself and cut the white tiger in half as he launched an attack on Japar.
• Japar dodged Chen Fan’s sword with Wind Intent, while the Warriors of God rushed in to attack Chen Fan.
• Chen Fan used the Embroidered Garment to withstand their attacks, then killed several surrounding warriors with his sword.

Chen Fan fought High Priest Japar, using his ability to change size to overcome the wind tornado and the Warriors of God before dueling the ninth-level priest. When Japar unleashed a devastating Wind Curse, Chen Fan activated Berserk Divine Ability and killed him with a lightning-fast strike.

• Japar trapped Chen Fan in a wind tornado, but Chen Fan grew to enormous size, escaped, and crushed several Warriors of God with his giant sword.
• Chen Fan exchanged attacks with Japar while giant, then shrank to less than a meter tall to evade the wind blades and strike with greater speed.
• Chen Fan broke Japar's blood-red defensive barrier and wounded him, forcing Japar to unleash a powerful Wind Curse that devastated the plaza.
• Chen Fan activated Berserk Divine Ability, froze the flow of Japar's True Essence and surrounding origin energy, and blasted apart Japar's chest with a lightning-fast sword strike.

Chen Fan killed the Tarro Tribe's High Priest, seized his treasures, and freed hundreds of prisoners, including the Wendona sisters' father. After bringing the survivors back to Great Qian, he received the Moon Mountain Tribe's Life Pearl and learned how its healing power worked.

• Chen Fan recovered from using Berserk, returned to the prisoners, and killed a Tarro Warrior of God who threatened them.
• Chen Fan ordered the Tarro Tribe's remaining Warriors of God to guard the prisoners, looted the High Priest's sacrificial hall, and had the tribe escort the captives to Great Qian.
• Wendona and Saiyiti waited at the border pass until Chen Fan arrived with the prisoners, and they reunited with their father.
• The sisters' father told them Chen Fan had killed Japar and defeated the Tarro Tribe's forces, and they thanked Chen Fan for saving him.
• The Moon Mountain Tribe gave Chen Fan its Life Pearl, and its chieftain explained that it healed injuries and could recharge in three to five months.

Chen Fan accepted an emergency Embroidered Garment Tower mission to investigate killings in Seeing Dragon Commandery and arrived in Golden Shallows City. There, Le Shaoyuan recognized him despite his disguise and noticed his rapid cultivation progress.

• Chen Fan learned the Life Pearl had come from the dangerous Kunwu Secret Realm, accepted it, and left the Moon Mountain Tribe.
• Chen Fan received an emergency mission concerning mass killings near Seeing Dragon Commandery, suspected to involve the Seamless Gate and evil cults.
• Yu Hengcheng received the same mission and traveled toward Seeing Dragon Commandery, hoping Chen Fan would join it.
• Chen Fan reached Golden Shallows City and checked into an inn after considering the black dragon statue's potential use in a storm.
• Le Shaoyuan found Chen Fan by sensing his powerful spirit, recognized his aura, and praised his progress to the sixth level; Chen Fan realized Le could see through his seventh-level cultivation.

Chen Fan joined Le Shaoyuan and other Embroidered Garment Tower members in Golden Shallows City for a mission against the Seamless Gate. He discovered that Yu Hengcheng was among the gathered envoys and concealed his suspicions while assessing the danger he posed.

• Le Shaoyuan praised Chen Fan’s powerful spirit, warned him about the Seamless Gate gate master, and brought him to meet the mission team.
• Chen Fan entered the manor with Le Shaoyuan and saw Yu Hengcheng among the Embroidered Garment envoys.
• Yu Hengcheng greeted Chen Fan and praised his reputation, while Chen Fan answered calmly and tried not to reveal that they had fought before.
• The group introduced themselves, and Chen Fan learned that Yu Hengcheng had been demoted from the Earth Tower but remained a formidable eighth-level martial artist.
• Chen Fan considered Yu Hengcheng’s methods and Vanishing Trail Talisman, deciding that he would need to kill him instantly if they fought.