Chapter Summaries

Tang Zizhen sent the Silver Prefecture Generals into the Flood Dragon Hall to find the source of the Killing Intent sustaining the White Bone Dragon Skeleton. Qin An discovered that the True Dragon’s old neck wound might let them destroy its corpse, but they still had to attack it.

• Tang Zizhen ordered the Evil Extermination Division Members to enter the Flood Dragon Hall while she and the other Golden Prefecture Generals kept the White Bone Dragon Skeleton suppressed.
• Zhou Yuanfeng led the Silver Prefecture Generals inside, and Qin An followed a trail of Killing Intent to a hidden passage beneath a throne.
• The group found a Dragon Corpse underground, but their attacks rebounded from its powerful Killing Intent and defenses.
• Qin An returned after studying the passage carvings and revealed that the Dragon Corpse came from the Ancient Battlefield Ruins.
• Qin An pointed out the corpse’s fatal neck wound and said attacking it together could help them break through its defenses.

Qin An led the Silver Prefecture Generals in destroying the True Dragon's corpse and secretly obtained Fire Element Divine Sense. The Evil Extermination Division wiped out Flood Dragon Hall, but a Fox Woman escaped to report Qin An's strength to Empress Fox Consort.

• Qin An combined the Silver Prefecture Generals' True Essence with his Three-Blade Fusion Secret Art to shatter the Dragon Corpse and absorb the Fire Element Divine Sense hidden inside it.
• Qin An learned from the cavern carvings that Wood Element Divine Sense lay somewhere in the Ancient Battlefield Ruins, then erased the carvings that revealed the Fire Element Divine Sense's location.
• Zhou Yuanfeng and the others returned to help Tang Zizhen and the Golden Prefecture Generals defeat the White Bone Dragon Skeleton, and Tang Zizhen led the Division away after Flood Dragon Hall was destroyed.
• A Fox Woman emerged from hiding and fled to tell Empress Fox Consort about Flood Dragon Hall's destruction and Qin An's true fighting strength.

Fox Consort learned that Qin An had helped destroy Flood Dragon Hall and ordered her people to kill him if he left Xunyang Prefecture. After returning from the mission, Qin An planned to improve his blacksmithing, spent the day practicing it, and found Zhao Wuhuan waiting to discuss an important matter.

• Fox Consort learned that Qin An had used a Formation to locate Flood Dragon Hall, then ordered her Fox Demons to watch for a chance to kill him.
• Zhou Yuanfeng told Tang Zizhen how Qin An had slain the dragon in three strikes, but Tang Zizhen remained skeptical of Qin An because of his connection to Jin Fengyu.
• Qin An decided to raise his Blacksmith Profession and spent the following day practicing at a blacksmith shop.
• Heifeng greeted Qin An at his door and told him that Zhao Wuhuan was waiting inside.
• Zhao Wuhuan welcomed Qin An, noted that they now held the same rank, and said he had an important matter to discuss.

Qin An refused to sever ties with Jin Fengyu for a chance to become Zhao Wuhuan’s teacher’s disciple and focused on gaining strength ahead of the Mountain Patrol General Examination. After reaching Blacksmith Profession Level 11 and creating the Blood Burning Eight Brocade Demon Sealing Hand, he arrived at the Evil Extermination Division for the examination.

• Zhao Wuhuan told Qin An the Mountain Patrol General Examination was fifteen days away and offered to recommend him; Qin An agreed to take it.
• Zhao Wuhuan revealed that Zhou Yuanfeng had asked his teacher to consider Qin An as a disciple if Qin An broke with Jin Fengyu, but Qin An declined to commit and said he wanted to slay demons and grow stronger.
• Qin An raised his Blacksmith Profession to Level 11, reforged the Cold Star Blade, and returned to the Evil Extermination Division.
• Qin An mastered the Mysterious Spirit Sealing Heaven Hand, then used six Demon Cores to create the Blood Burning Eight Brocade Demon Sealing Hand and raise it to Outer Core Realm Initial Proficiency.
• Qin An went to the Evil Extermination Division the next morning, where Silver Prefecture Generals had gathered for the examination as two Mountain Patrol Bronze Generals faced them.

Qin An chose Zhou Xuan’s Metal Iron Sect confiscation raid for the Mountain Patrol General Examination and traveled with Xu Shifeng toward the sect. Meanwhile, Fox Consort learned Qin An was likely heading there and ordered the Green Snake Clan to kill him.

• Chen Tiande and Zhou Xuan split the examination into raids against the Fire Virtue Gate and the Metal Iron Sect, and Qin An chose Zhou Xuan’s assignment with Xu Shifeng.
• Zhou Xuan explained that the Metal Iron Sect had colluded with Demons and that the examiners planned to ambush its members and two Fox Demons from Mount Xiaoyao.
• Fox Woman told Fox Consort that Qin An was probably heading for the Metal Iron Sect, though Mount Xiaoyao could not safely warn the sect or intervene directly.
• Fox Consort ordered the Green Snake Clan to send its two Perfection of the Outer Core Realm experts to kill Qin An.

The Fox Consort ordered two Fox Women to continue their mission at the Metal Iron Sect as bait, despite the danger, hoping to lure a major target and kill Qin An. While waiting for the demons, Qin An confronted Zhou Xuan over his ties to Jin Fengyu and rejected his threat; after night fell, the two Fox Women arrived at the sect, where its leaders welcomed them and agreed to provide disciples for their Blood Feast.

• The Fox Consort refused to recall the two Fox Women, accepting their deaths as a necessary risk to make the trap convincing and draw out Qin An.
• Zhou Xuan admitted that Jin Fengyu had asked him to look after Qin An, then warned Qin An to choose sides and threatened his mission assessment.
• Qin An accused Zhou Xuan of using his rank to pressure him, and the two agreed to fight after the mission.
• The two Fox Women reached the Metal Iron Sect and met Sect Master Li, who offered them lodging and disciples with abundant Yang Energy.
• A scream suddenly broke the silence over the Metal Iron Sect.

The Metal Iron Sect prepared to fight six Mountain Patrol Generals after its alliance with Mount Xiaoyao was exposed. Qin An and the others attacked, and as Qin An battled the voluptuous Fox Woman, the Green Snake Clan Leader and the Green Snake Elder waited to ambush him.

• The two Fox Women drained several Metal Iron Sect men of their Yang Energy before a disciple's scream alerted the sect to the approaching Mountain Patrol Generals.
• Sect Master Li stopped the Fox Women from fleeing, insisting the sect's Geng Metal Secret Art was too important to abandon.
• The Green Snake Clan Leader and the Green Snake Elder arrived to support the sect, then concealed themselves and planned to strike when Qin An was vulnerable.
• Zhou Xuan led the Mountain Patrol Generals into battle, ordering Xu Shifeng to attack the ordinary disciples while he and the others fought the Outer Core Realm enemies.
• Qin An attacked the voluptuous Fox Woman, who used Fox Blood True Form and transformed into a giant white fox to fight him.
• The Green Snake Clan Leader and the Green Snake Elder watched Qin An, waiting for the Fox Women to force him to use the full power of his Three-Blade Fusion.

Qin An killed both Fox Demons and absorbed their Demon Cores before the Green Snake Clan’s two Outer Core Perfection Demons revealed themselves. As battle erupted, the Green Snake Clan Leader attacked Qin An with a powerful Secret Art, and the chapter ended as Qin An faced a second, even larger True Essence Giant Pellet.

• The curvaceous Fox Woman attacked Qin An with her Secret Art, but Qin An killed her with Three-Blade Fusion and absorbed her Demon Core.
• Qin An killed the slender Fox Woman and absorbed her Demon Core while the Silver Prefecture Generals watched in shock.
• The two Green Snake Demons emerged and rejected Zhou Xuan’s attempt to negotiate, forcing the fighters into battle.
• The Green Snake Clan Leader transformed and hurled a True Essence Giant Pellet at Qin An, who survived the blast with only one layer of Golden Light remaining.
• The Green Snake Clan Leader launched a second, twice-as-large True Essence Giant Pellet at Qin An, who calmly challenged its power.

Qin An defeated the Green Snake Clan Leader and the Green Snake Elder, then confronted Sect Master Li as the Metal Iron Sect leader unleashed a powerful golden sword. Qin An recognized Metal Element Divine Sense within the sword, but Sect Master Li prepared to attack again.

• Qin An burned a Demon Core and used Blood Burning Eight Brocade Demon Sealing Hand to shatter the Green Snake Clan Leader's True Essence Giant Pellet, then killed him and took his Demon Core.
• Qin An killed the Green Snake Elder by striking his vital point and extracting his Demon Core while he was still alive.
• Sect Master Li threw the Two Elders toward Qin An and the others, and Qin An cut off both their heads before Sect Master Li summoned a golden sword from an Orb.
• Sect Master Li wielded the sword's golden flames and drove back the combined attacks of Qin An and the others.
• Qin An sensed Metal Element Divine Sense inside the golden sword and realized it explained the Metal Iron Sect's ability to infuse weapons with Geng Metal Qi.
• Sect Master Li, badly charred by the sword, raised it again and vowed to kill everyone.

Qin An killed Sect Master Li and claimed the Metal Element Divine Sense, then returned to the Evil Extermination Division and received promotion to Mountain Patrol Bronze General. He went to the Medical Hall to advance the Physician, while the Fox Consort postponed her plan to kill him until after the Ancient Battlefield Ruins erupted.

• Qin An broke through Sect Master Li's Golden Sword with his Blood Burning Eight Brocade Demon Sealing Hand, then killed him with Cold Star and absorbed the Metal Element Divine Sense.
• Xu Shifeng and the Silver Prefecture Generals thanked Qin An for saving them, while Qin An challenged Zhou Xuan to their promised bout and left after warning him to keep a lower profile.
• Qin An and the others collected weapons from the Metal Iron Sect and returned to the Evil Extermination Division.
• A Prefecture Officer presented Qin An with his Mountain Patrol Bronze General token after his Merits were tallied.
• Qin An went to the Medical Hall in Xunyang Prefecture to advance the Physician to level eleven before improving his Body-Protection Cultivation Method.
• At Mount Xiaoyao, the Fox Consort told the Fox Woman to focus on the Ancient Battlefield Ruins and let Qin An keep his head for a few more days.

Fox Consort ordered Mount Xiaoyao's Sons to prioritize the Ancient Battlefield Ruins while postponing revenge on Qin An. After raising his Physician profession to level eleven, Qin An fused his body-protection techniques into the Outer Core Heavenly Physician Dharma Form and decided to take a mission.

• Fox Consort learned that Mount Xiaoyao's Sons had secured her requested resources and ordered them to seize more opportunities in the Ancient Battlefield Ruins before pursuing Qin An.
• Tang Zizhen told Zhou Yuanfeng that their teacher would consider Qin An as a disciple only after he became a Mountain Patrol Silver General, and she rejected Zhou's concern that Jin Fengyu might recruit him first.
• Qin An exchanged all his Merits for the Primal Gold Form and six Demon Cores, then reached Physician level eleven.
• Qin An perfected the Primal Gold Form and, by burning Vital Blood, fused it with the Heavenly Mysterious Medical Body to create the Heavenly Physician Dharma Form.
• Qin An tested the new form's defensive power, dismissed it, and decided to take a mission.

Qin An accepted a mission to help the benevolent false god Yang Mingzi defend Barren Mountain Village from an evil false god. After learning how the two gods came to exist and hearing about the enemy’s threat, Qin An discovered Yang Mingzi had withheld something important, and Yang Mingzi begged him to deliver justice.

• Qin An accepted a mission to help Yang Mingzi withstand an evil false god near Xunyang Prefecture.
• Qin An traveled to Barren Mountain Village and learned from a villager that Yang Mingzi protected the settlement from his mountain temple.
• Qin An found Yang Mingzi struggling against sinister Buddhist prayer beads and followed him to the temple’s inner courtyard.
• Yang Mingzi explained that a Daoist statue and a Buddha statue had both become false gods, and that the evil Buddha false god had murdered Yang Mingzi’s teacher and threatened the villagers.
• Yang Mingzi revealed that the enemy had grown to Outer Core Great Completion and demanded that Yang Mingzi either help slaughter the villagers or be devoured.
• When Qin An asked whether his mission was to kill the Buddha false god, Yang Mingzi knelt and begged him to see justice done.

Qin An accepted Yang Mingzi’s task to kill Buddha Bitter, then discovered that the demon was protected by Hu Hai and the Jun Jie Association. After Qin An killed Buddha Bitter, Hu Hai and three fellow Mountain Patrol Bronze Generals surrounded him and threatened to silence him.

• Yang Mingzi told Qin An that a Mountain Patrol General had ordered him to let Buddha Bitter devour him, and Qin An agreed to protect the village and take the task.
• Qin An spent the day training, then learned from Yang Mingzi about his work caring for Barren Mountain Village and its villagers.
• Buddha Bitter broke into the Daoist temple and demanded Yang Mingzi’s False Core, but Qin An subdued him.
• Hu Hai arrived and tried to stop Qin An from killing Buddha Bitter, but Qin An beheaded the demon and absorbed his False Core.
• Three more Mountain Patrol Bronze Generals joined Hu Hai, identified themselves as the Jun Jie Association, and threatened Qin An; Qin An drew Cold Star and prepared to fight them.

Qin An killed four Mountain Patrol Bronze Generals who tried to silence him, then returned to the Evil Extermination Division with Yang Mingzi and the bodies. As Zhou Yuanfeng worried about the powerful connections of the dead men, Qin An claimed he had a way out, just as their pursuers arrived.

• Hu Hai and three other Mountain Patrol Bronze Generals attacked Qin An, but he killed all four and took their Demon Cores.
• Hu Hai revealed that the Generals had tried to kill Qin An to conceal their actions amid the struggle to replace Xunyang Prefecture's Chief Prefecture Head.
• Qin An told Yang Mingzi to bring the bodies back to the Evil Extermination Division, and Yang Mingzi agreed to accompany him.
• Qin An presented the bodies to the Division and summoned Zhou Yuanfeng, who warned him that the dead Generals' powerful connections could retaliate.
• Zhou Yuanfeng offered to ask his teacher for help, but Qin An said he had another way out.
• A bloodline-tracking technique led angry pursuers to the Evil Extermination Division, where they threatened to drag out the killer.

Qin An faced Hu Long and three Mountain Patrol Silver Generals who accused him of killing their sons, and he invoked Jin Fengyu to stop them from attacking. Jin Fengyu arrived and arranged for the four men to fight Qin An together once he reached the Inner God Realm, a deal they accepted without realizing how dangerous it was for them.

• Zhou Yuanfeng followed Qin An to the main courtyard, where Tang Zizhen and two Golden Prefecture Generals tried to hold back Hu Long and three other Mountain Patrol Silver Generals.
• Hu Long accused Qin An of killing their sons and attacked him, while Qin An challenged the men to produce evidence and invoked Jin Fengyu's name.
• Qin An advanced as Hu Long and the other Silver Generals retreated, until Jin Fengyu arrived and ordered them to prove their case within half an incense stick's burn.
• Jin Fengyu proposed that the four Silver Generals fight Qin An together when he reached the Inner God Realm, and Hu Long and the others accepted the arrangement.

Qin An accepted Jin Fengyu’s recommendation to enter the Ancient Battlefield Ruins and planned to strengthen his Movement Technique before going. While Mount Lu and Mount Xiaoyao discussed Qin An’s attacks on fox demons, Qin An trained in seclusion and raised his Dancer Profession to level eleven.

• Jin Fengyu met Qin An in his courtyard, gave him a Token, and told him to enter the Ancient Battlefield Ruins in fifteen days.
• Qin An accepted the opportunity because he sought Wood Element Divine Sense and planned to improve his Movement Technique before entering the ruins.
• At Mount Xiaoyao, Lu Wufeng warned Fox Consort not to ask about the Ancient Battlefield Ruins and offered to help her deal with Qin An.
• Qin An stayed in his room for several days and successfully trained his Dancer Profession to level eleven.

Qin An perfected the Shadow Movement Technique and fused it with the Dragon's Roar Wind Shadow Steps into a silent Outer Core Realm technique. He traveled toward the Ancient Battlefield Ruins, where Ye Rou and the Jun Jie Association decided to pursue him for killing their members.

• Qin An used his Dancer Talent to perfect the Shadow Movement Technique, then burned Vital Blood and two Demon Cores until insight let him fuse it with the Dragon's Roar Wind Shadow Steps as the Dragon's Roar Shadow Steps.
• Qin An decided to rest instead of taking missions, then left Xunyang Prefecture for Black Cloud Mountain ahead of the Ancient Battlefield Ruins expedition.
• At Cangnan Posthouse, Ye Rou told three Mountain Patrol Bronze Generals that Qin An had killed Hu Hai and other Jun Jie Association members, and proposed they deal with him during the expedition if they encountered him.
• Qin An arrived at the posthouse, noticed the four generals watching him, ate and rested, then left without confronting them.
• After Qin An departed, Ye Rou learned that about ten more Jun Jie Association members were entering the ruins and told her companions to stay close to him.

Qin An entered the Ancient Battlefield Ruins and set out through the forest toward the Verdant Forest in search of the Wood Element Divine Sense. Ye Rou’s group joined forces with Fox Demons and tracked him, while an unrelated fight at the Lake was interrupted by an unknown voice.

• Qin An passed through the Bronze Gate and arrived alone in a dense forest after the ruins sent entrants to random locations.
• Qin An studied his map, chose a route to the Verdant Forest, and began cutting through the trees with his blade.
• Ye Rou and three Mountain Patrol Bronze Generals allied with three Fox Demons and used Zhang Yun’s Daoist Tracking Art to locate Qin An about a hundred li away.
• Ye Rou’s group set off to join six more allies and then hunt Qin An, while the Fox Woman worried that they might kill the Fox Demons afterward.
• At the Lake, Zhao Quan and Zhao Xue were cornered by three Demons over a glowing pearl, and Zhao Xue prepared to kill herself rather than be captured.
• A cold voice announced that it would take the three Demons’ cores.

Qin An rescued Zhao Quan and Zhao Xue from three Demons, then agreed to escort them to the Verdant Forest in exchange for a Blood and Qi bead. As they arrived at the forest, Ye Rou and the Jun Jie Association caught up and confronted Qin An over his killing of their members.

• Qin An killed three Outer Core Realm Demons and absorbed their Demon Cores, saving Zhao Quan and Zhao Xue.
• Zhao Quan offered Qin An a bead rich in Blood and Qi Power and explained that he and Zhao Xue sought a treasure their father had hidden in the Verdant Forest.
• Qin An absorbed the bead and agreed to let the siblings travel with him, warning that he would leave them if he faced danger beyond his ability.
• Zhang Yun, Ye Rou, Hu Sha, and their group tracked Qin An from the lakeside and learned that he had left with a man and a woman.
• At the Verdant Forest, Zhao Quan showed Qin An a map of its traps and offered to lead him along a safe route to the hidden treasure.
• Ye Rou arrived with ten Mountain Patrol Bronze Generals and three fox demons, accused Qin An of killing Jun Jie Association members, and threatened him.

Qin An and Zhao Quan and Zhao Xue were ambushed by Ye Rou, the Mountain Patrol Bronze Generals, and three Fox Demons, who sought revenge and the Zhao Household's treasure. Qin An slaughtered the attackers, then spared Ye Rou for the moment and made her survival depend on what she did next.

• Ye Rou revealed that she and the Fox Demons wanted revenge on Qin An, while she ordered the Zhao siblings captured alive to find the Zhao Household's treasure.
• Zhao Quan offered to hold off the attackers so Qin An could escape with Zhao Xue, but Qin An stopped him and attacked instead.
• Qin An used his Heavenly Physician Dharma Form and Dragon's Roar Shadow Steps to withstand the attackers and kill the three Fox Demons.
• The Mountain Patrol Bronze Generals formed a Formation and attacked Qin An, but he shattered it and killed them as they fled.
• Ye Rou begged Qin An to spare her and offered to serve him, but he pointed toward the Verdant Forest and said her survival depended on what she did next.