Chapter Summaries

Zhao Feng returned to the Nine Yang Gate after surviving the Bone-Eating Shoal, hiding his stolen treasures and giving Mu Xuanzhou a carefully altered account of what happened. After the other sects learned of their losses, Wei Tieyi and Yu Ruoyun questioned Zhao Feng, but his story matched Huo Yao’s and their suspicions faded.

• Qianhu Fan ordered two guards to escort Zhao Feng to Ever-Peace Prefecture, then left with the Cowhide Scroll.
• Zhao Feng hid the bottles, Treasure Medicine, and Eight Extremes Eternal Spring Art beneath his courtyard’s water vat before returning to the Nine Yang Gate two days later.
• Zhao Feng told Mu Xuanzhou that the team had encountered the giant python and Demonic Sect, concealing the Northern Barbarian’s involvement and claiming he had escaped his pursuers.
• Mu Xuanzhou said the sect alliance and Martial Suppression Bureau had destroyed the Demonic Sect Branch Hall, while Pockmarked Huang and one guardian escaped and the wounded python fled.
• News confirmed Cai Zhiqian and Song Zhi had died, while Liu Yang survived badly injured, prompting grief and anger among the Divine Martial Manor and Eight Extremes Gate leaders.
• Wei Tieyi and Yu Ruoyun questioned Zhao Feng at the Nine Yang Gate; Mu Xuanzhou broke Wei Tieyi’s attempt to cloud Zhao Feng’s mind, and the visitors left after Zhao Feng’s account matched Huo Yao’s.

Zhao Feng returned to the Fishing Ground after witnessing a vision in Mu Xuanzhou’s calligraphy, then investigated the aftermath of the Demonic Sect attack and learned that Chu Fan might have joined them. At the Martial Suppression Bureau, Xia Commandant revealed that the Northern Barbarians and the Demonic Sect were seeking Great Yan’s dragon eye to destroy its national fortune.

• Mu Xuanzhou warned Zhao Feng about the Five Sects Alliance, and Zhao Feng saw the characters “Myriad Laws Follow Nature” transform into spirit fish.
• Zhao Feng returned to the Fishing Ground, found that the disciples had defeated several water beasts, and let them keep the beasts’ materials.
• Zhao Feng visited Huo Yao, who described her injuries, Song Zhi’s death, and her suspicion that Chu Fan had been among the Demonic Sect searchers.
• Zhao Feng concluded that Chu Fan had likely joined the Demonic Sect and left Golden Sand Marsh determined to eliminate him.
• Xia Commandant told Zhao Feng that the Cowhide Scroll concerned Great Yan’s dragon vein and that the Northern Barbarians and Demonic Sect sought the dragon eye near the Lancang River.

Zhao Feng studied the Eight Extremes Everlasting Spring Art and began cultivating its first volume, a wood-element life-nourishing art with a self-healing effect. He then visited Lin Ziwei, who identified several pills and a corrosive poison he had taken from a Northern Barbarian.

• Xia Commandant told Zhao Feng that the Martial Suppression Bureau would cooperate with the Five Great Sects to locate and protect the dragon eye, and agreed to investigate Guo Ying discreetly.
• Zhao Feng learned that a Root Bone Pill cost five hundred merit points, then returned to his courtyard and secretly studied the Eight Extremes Everlasting Spring Art through the night.
• Zhao Feng reached beginner level in the art's first volume and decided to seek wood-element pills at the Four Seas Trading House.
• Lin Ziwei identified Zhao Feng's bottles as containing Bloodburst Pills, Turtle Breath Pills, Passion Powder and its antidote, and Bone-Dissolving Water from the Corpse Yin Cult.

Zhao Feng learned that his cousin Qiao'er had reached Bright Strength, bought Azure Radiance Pills, and considered his cultivation and the enemies who still threatened him. The chapter ended with Hong Changzhi telling him that he had made Great Yan’s Dragon-Tiger Ranking.

• Lin Ziwei told Zhao Feng that the Corpse Yin Cult had begun rising again, delivered a letter from his family, and reported that Qiao'er had reached Bright Strength.
• Lin Ziwei described the Imperial Court's recent victories and relief efforts, then recommended Azure Radiance Pills, and Zhao Feng bought ten as a gift.
• Su Chi asked his lord for permission to avenge his brother, but the middle-aged man ordered him to focus on finding the dragon eye with the Blood Lotus Sect's help.
• Zhao Feng returned to the Fishing Ground, reviewed his cultivation progress, and considered his unresolved threats and whether he could leave Nine Yang Gate.
• Zhao Feng struggled to contemplate Myriad Laws Follow Nature, and Hong Changzhi arrived with a booklet and told him he had made Great Yan's Dragon-Tiger Ranking.

After Zhao Feng entered the Tiger Ranking, Jiang Chen challenged him to reclaim his standing, but Zhao Feng defeated him at the Nine Yang Gate. As the revised ranking spread through Qingzhou, Chu Fan saw Zhao Feng’s name and vowed to perfect his divine art.

• Zhao Feng learned that the Great Yan Chronicles ranked him at number 300 on the Tiger Ranking, ahead of Jiang Chen, and accepted Jiang Chen’s written challenge.
• Jiang Chen arrived at the Nine Yang Gate with Elder Dou, while Tang Yunshu explained that Jiang Chen had grown stronger while mourning Duan Hai and practicing saber techniques.
• At the Martial Arts Arena, Jiang Chen attacked Zhao Feng with newly comprehended saber moves, but Zhao Feng calmly countered him with his spear.
• After more than thirty exchanges, Zhao Feng disarmed Jiang Chen and stopped his spear an inch from Jiang Chen’s shoulder, and Jiang Chen accepted his defeat.
• The revised Dragon-Tiger Ranking spread through Qingzhou, and Chu Fan saw Zhao Feng’s name in the Great Yan Chronicles and vowed to perfect his divine art.

Zhao Feng uncovered Guo Ying as a Demonic Sect spy inside the Nine Yang Gate, and Mu Xuanzhou secretly tasked him with purging her. Zhao Feng ambushed Guo Ying and her lover, the man surnamed Fei, and the chapter ended as he charged at Fei.

• Yu Ruoyun planned to bring Zhao Feng closer to the Eight Extremes Gate through Huo Yao and renewed the hunt for the escaped Demonic Sect elder.
• Zhao Feng refused challenges to his Tiger Ranking position and received the spear Condensed Edge as a reward for his service to the authorities.
• Xia Commandant reported that Guo Ying often met a suspicious lover in Bai Shan County, while Mu Xuanzhou confirmed she was a Demonic Sect spy and ordered Zhao Feng to deal with her quietly.
• Guo Ying met the man surnamed Fei, shared information about the Five Sects Alliance, and swallowed a Blood Essence Pill from him.
• Zhao Feng shot Guo Ying through the chest with a true-qi-infused arrow, then burst into the room and attacked Fei.

Zhao Feng captured Fei after killing Guo Ying and delivered him to the Martial Suppression Bureau, then warned Mu Xuanzhou about the Demonic Sect’s infiltration. After obtaining spirit milk and ordering new arrows and a bow, he used the spirit milk to accelerate his cultivation.

• Zhao Feng defeated Fei, killed the wounded Guo Ying, and dissolved her body with Bone-Dissolving Water.
• Zhao Feng delivered the unconscious Fei to Xia Commandant for interrogation and reported Guo Ying’s betrayal to Mu Xuanzhou.
• Mu Xuanzhou warned that the Demonic Sect might have spies in the other four major sects and gave Zhao Feng a drop of century-old spirit milk.
• Zhao Feng ordered thirty Inkfeather Arrows, thirty Eaglefeather Arrows, and a superior-grade six-stone Treasure Bow from Lin Ziwei.
• Zhao Feng consumed the spirit milk and cultivated the Eight Extremes Everlasting Spring Art, reaching beginner level at 436/1000.

During the Eight Extremes Gate’s founder memorial ceremony, Sect Master Yu Ruoyun secretly sought reinforcements from the Nine Yang Gate after suspecting a trap. The ceremony was shattered when Lu Zhou attacked Yu Ruoyun, revealing himself as a traitor and blaming the Sect Master for denying him a Profound Insight Pill.

• Yu Ruoyun received a secret letter, sent Huo Yao to ask Mu Xuanzhou for help, and ordered her to keep the request secret.
• Zhao Feng escorted Huo Yao to Mu Xuanzhou, who ordered Fang Han, Hong Changzhi, and Zhao Feng to prepare to reinforce the Eight Extremes Gate.
• Yu Ruoyun led the Eight Extremes Gate’s annual founder memorial ceremony while Xiao Li and Chen Hong remained away defending the sect’s properties.
• As Yu Ruoyun offered incense, Lu Zhou struck him from behind and fled from the Founder's Hall.
• Lu Zhou told Yu Ruoyun he had attacked because the Sect Master had given the sect’s only Profound Insight Pill to Xiao Li instead of him.

Lu Zhou betrayed the Eight Extremes Gate and joined the Blood Lotus Sect, whose forces launched a coordinated assault on the sect. Yu Ruoyun struggled against Lu Zhou and Pockmarked Huang until Mu Xuanzhou of the Nine Yang Gate arrived with reinforcements.

• Lu Zhou revealed that demonic arts had restored his youth and blamed Yu Ruoyun for his betrayal.
• Blood Lotus Sect forces attacked from within and outside the Eight Extremes Gate, while Yu Ruoyun ordered his disciples to defend the sect and summon reinforcements.
• Yu Ruoyun survived Lu Zhou's sneak attack because he wore the Pole-Suppressing Mystic Gold Armor.
• Lu Zhou tried to turn the Eight Extremes Gate's disciples against one another by promising rewards to those who followed him.
• Lu Zhou and Pockmarked Huang fought Yu Ruoyun together, leaving him at a growing disadvantage as the sect's defenders suffered heavy losses.
• Mu Xuanzhou arrived with disciples from the Nine Yang Gate to aid the Eight Extremes Gate.

Mu Xuanzhou joined the battle at the Eight Extremes Gate, while Zhao Feng used his arrows and spear to turn the fight against the Demonic Sect. The battle remained underway as Zhao Feng killed a Demonic Sect Pill Embracement expert.

• Mu Xuanzhou arrived and forced Pockmarked Huang onto the defensive, then fought him and You Xue at once.
• Yu Ruoyun charged Lu Zhou, while Fang Han, Hong Changzhi, and Huo Yao engaged Demonic Sect Embracing Elixir Force experts.
• Zhao Feng shot the short Demonic Sect expert attacking Yin Zheng and helped Yin Zheng defeat another of his attackers.
• Zhao Feng exchanged arrows with Su Chi, wounded him, and evaded a saber strike from a Demonic Sect Pill Embracement expert.
• Zhao Feng fought the saber wielder with his spear and killed him by thrusting through his chest.

Zhao Feng turned the battle at the Mountain Gate by driving off the hidden archer and supporting the Eight Extremes Gate fighters with his bow. With the Martial Suppression Guards joining the fight, Yu Ruoyun defeated the traitor Lu Zhou, and the Demonic Sect began retreating.

• Zhao Feng used a corpse as a shield, retrieved his Treasure Bow, and wounded the hidden archer, who escaped across the cliff.
• Qianhu Fan led the Martial Suppression Guards through the Mountain Gate, shifting the battle in the righteous side's favor.
• Zhao Feng harassed the Demonic Sect's Pill Embracement experts with arrows, helping Yin Zheng, Fang Han, and Hong Changzhi gain the upper hand.
• Yu Ruoyun abandoned his defense and defeated Lu Zhou, relying on his Profound Gold Armor to survive their final exchange.
• Pockmarked Huang and Elder Netherblood forced Mu Xuanzhou back and led the surviving Demonic Sect disciples in retreat, while a guardian elder begged the Branch Hall Leader to save him.

Mo Wenyuan and Xiong Tiansheng captured the Dark Guard after the Eight Extremes Gate’s battle, while the Martial Suppression Bureau used the crisis to press for leadership of the Five Sects Alliance. The Dark Guard’s capture prompted three Demonic Sect spies to flee, and the Five Great Sects agreed to unite under the Bureau.

• Mo Wenyuan and Xiong Tiansheng pursued and defeated the Dark Guard, who insisted Junior Sister Song had escaped rather than been killed.
• Yu Ruoyun thanked Mu Xuanzhou and Qianhu Fan for their help, while Qianhu Fan urged the Five Great Sects to let the Martial Suppression Bureau lead their alliance.
• Wei Tieyi, Peng Jingyu, and Shi Chengdong arrived at the Eight Extremes Gate, denied having spies, and agreed to let Qianhu Fan interrogate the captured Dark Guard.
• Yin Zheng thanked Zhao Feng with money and pills, then confirmed that the Dark Guard had claimed Junior Sister Song escaped and had been sent to the Martial Suppression Bureau.
• Shi Xijin, Luo Kang, and Yuan Xiaochuan defected from their sects after assuming the Dark Guard’s capture had exposed them.
• The sect masters of the Five Great Sects agreed to form an alliance led by the Martial Suppression Bureau.

After the Demonic Sect’s collusion with the Mao and Xiang Families was exposed, Zhao Feng took a mission to capture the wounded Yuan Xiaochuan at the Blackstone Mine. He killed Pan Jie, who had been secretly helping Yuan recover, and prepared to approach his target.

• Mu Xuanzhou explained to Zhao Feng that fusing all five elements required rare insight and Heavenly Treasures.
• The Five Sects and the Martial Suppression Bureau uncovered the Mao and Xiang Families’ ties to the Demonic Sect and began hunting their fleeing members and dismantling the sect’s strongholds.
• Zhao Feng accepted a Grade-B mission to capture the injured Yuan Xiaochuan, who was believed to be hiding at the Blackstone Mine.
• Pan Jie brought Yuan Xiaochuan Restoration Pills and received Blood Baleful Pills in return, hoping they would help him reach Pill Embracement.
• After Pan Jie found no food waiting in the steward’s hut, Zhao Feng struck him from behind and killed him with a scorching force.

Disguised as Ink Eagle, Zhao Feng ambushed Yuan Xiaochuan in the Blackstone Mine and fought him in the cramped passage. Zhao Feng gained the upper hand with a counterstrike to Yuan Xiaochuan’s chest.

• Zhao Feng found Pan Jie at the Blackstone Mine, killed him, and took his money and Vermilion Pills.
• Zhao Feng followed Pan Jie’s route into the mine passage and surprised Yuan Xiaochuan, worsening his healing injuries with an Iron Mountain Lean.
• Yuan Xiaochuan attacked with his saber while Zhao Feng fought with a split spear, and the narrow passage limited both their techniques.
• Yuan Xiaochuan switched to a fist technique, but Zhao Feng used the True Yang Cotton Palm to evade and dissipate his blows.
• Zhao Feng baited Yuan Xiaochuan into a powerful punch, redirected its force, and struck his chest with his left palm.

After killing Yuan Xiaochuan and selling several stolen weapons, Zhao Feng completed his mission and earned merit with the Martial Suppression Bureau. He joined Fang Han to pursue Xiang Wentian for the Xiang Family heirloom, the Wood Marrow Heartflow, but found several other martial masters waiting at their destination.

• Zhao Feng killed Yuan Xiaochuan, took his token and possessions, and destroyed the corpse to hide evidence of his identity.
• Zhao Feng sold three treasured weapons, then gave Yuan Xiaochuan's badge to Xia Commandant and received 120 merit points.
• Fang Han told Zhao Feng that Xiang Wentian was fleeing toward Huaiyuan Prefecture with the Wood Marrow Heartflow, and Zhao Feng agreed to help pursue him.
• Fang Han and Zhao Feng tracked Xiang Wentian to Mulberry-Hemp Town and watched the town from Spring Splendor Tower.
• Zhao Feng and Fang Han discovered Nie Shengwu, Zhai Dong, and several other martial masters were also searching for Xiang Wentian.

Zhao Feng and Fang Han waited in Mulberry-Hemp Town for Xiang Wentian, who was rumored to be carrying the Wood Marrow Heartflow. Zhao Feng recognized Xiang Wentian disguised as a hunter and intercepted him, knocking him down with a sudden counterattack.

• Zhao Feng and Fang Han watched the town’s streets from the third floor of a restaurant while others discussed Xiang Wentian and Yan Yunkun’s pursuit.
• Ge Steward arrived with Qi Chenguang of the Four Seas Trading House and greeted Zhao Feng, while Qi Chenguang sat apart from them.
• At dusk, Zhao Feng spotted an elderly hunter whose gait and hands seemed wrong, then leaped through the window to block his path.
• The disguised Xiang Wentian attacked Zhao Feng with two blasts of force, but Zhao Feng diverted them with True Yang Cotton Palm.
• Zhao Feng struck Xiang Wentian with Iron Mountain Lean and sent him crashing to the ground, where he struggled to rise in terror.

Zhao Feng captured the wounded Xiang Wentian, but Yan Yunkun challenged his right to take the fugitive away. Their spar began with Zhao Feng evading Yan Yunkun’s sword and answering with a powerful spear technique.

• Zhao Feng defeated the exhausted Xiang Wentian in two moves, identified himself, and declared that he would return the fugitive to Ever-Peace Prefecture.
• Yan Yunkun arrived with Golden Wind Valley disciples and tried to seize Xiang Wentian, but Zhao Feng stopped him and argued that the fugitive was wanted by the Five Sects Alliance and Martial Suppression Bureau.
• Yan Yunkun refused to let Zhao Feng take Xiang Wentian, and Ge Steward proposed a spar to decide who would claim him; both men agreed.
• Yan Yunkun drew Blood-Drinker and attacked Zhao Feng, who dodged the sword qi and countered with Suppress Yang, Lock Meridians from the Overlord Sun-Splitting Spear.
• Yan Yunkun struggled to block Zhao Feng’s spear and realized that Zhao Feng’s strength and reputation were genuine.

Zhao Feng defeated Yan Yunkun and prepared to take Xiang Wentian back to Ever-Peace Prefecture, but Xiang Wentian scattered three treasures and fled. Zhao Feng pursued him and brought him down after his blood-burning escape art failed.

• Zhao Feng broke through Yan Yunkun’s sword techniques, disarmed him, and forced him to admit defeat.
• Yan Yunkun left town with the Golden Wind Valley disciples, then spat blood in seclusion and vowed to avenge his humiliation.
• Zhao Feng asked the gathered experts who opposed his taking Xiang Wentian to Ever-Peace Prefecture, and no one answered.
• Xiang Wentian sprang up, threw three treasures in different directions, and fled toward the woods using a blood-burning secret art.
• The gathering fought over the treasures as Zhao Feng pursued Xiang Wentian and knocked him down with a spear strike.

Zhao Feng exposed and killed an impostor posing as Xiang Wentian, then learned the real Xiang Wentian had escaped with the Nine-Palace Dragon-Seeking Compass. At the Blood Lotus Sect’s secret stronghold, Xiang Wentian delivered the compass, and the sect leaders prepared to use it and a Northern Barbarian shaman to locate and destroy the Dragon Eye.

• Zhao Feng identified the dying Xiang Wentian as a Demonic Sect impostor, searched his corpse, and claimed the genuine Wood Marrow Heartflow.
• Zhao Feng and Fang Han divided the banknotes and medicinal pills, while the other martial masters realized the real Xiang Wentian had escaped as part of a larger Demonic Sect plan.
• Zhao Feng and Fang Han reported the impostor and the escape to Mu Xuanzhou at the Nine Yang Gate.
• At a secret Blood Lotus Sect stronghold, the real Xiang Wentian gave Pockmarked Huang and Night Asura the Nine-Palace Dragon-Seeking Compass.
• Pockmarked Huang and Night Asura planned to use the compass and a Northern Barbarian shaman to find and destroy the Dragon Eye.

Pockmarked Huang sent Chu Fan back to Big Stone County to spread the faith, while Zhao Feng absorbed the Wood Marrow Heartflow and advanced his wood-element cultivation. As stories of Zhao Feng’s victory over Yan Yunkun spread through Huaiyuan Prefecture, he drew the attention of other young Embracing Elixir Force experts.

• Pockmarked Huang gave Chu Fan permission to return to Big Stone County to preach and recruit followers, warning him not to pursue personal grudges.
• Zhao Feng absorbed the Wood Marrow Heartflow, reaching minor mastery in the Eight Extremes Everlasting Spring Art and gaining purer wood-element true qi.
• Zhao Feng resumed his routine of supervising the Fishing Ground and visiting the Sect while the Demonic Sect stayed quiet.
• Rumors of Zhao Feng defeating Yan Yunkun and seeing through the fake Xiang Wentian spread through Huaiyuan Prefecture, growing more exaggerated as people retold them.
• Yan Yunkun was angered by the stories, and other young Embracing Elixir Force experts began paying attention to Zhao Feng.