Chapter Summaries

Xu Qing bought a courtyard in Cangzhou Prefecture Capital and spent the next week practicing the Cycle Law while learning about the city’s local factions. The Brotherhood demanded protection money from him, but Xu Qing refused, leaving the gang’s threat unresolved.

• Xu Qing negotiated with Wang Mazi and bought a courtyard on Linyun Street for 3.2 million taels of silver through a voluntary gift transfer.
• During the following seven days, Xu Qing practiced the Cycle Law while Wu Yi, Wu Er, Wu San, and Kaya investigated Cangzhou Prefecture Capital.
• Wu Yi and the others discovered that the Lin Yun Sect, the Qingshe Gang, and the Brotherhood controlled Linyun Street.
• Brotherhood members entered Xu Qing’s courtyard and demanded ten thousand taels of silver each month for protection.
• Xu Qing refused to pay, and the bald Brotherhood member warned that the gang would not protect him from danger before leaving with his men.

Xu Qing’s Dao Soldiers killed repeated attempts by the Brotherhood to infiltrate his residence, prompting its leader Zhu Hong to bring the instigator as an apology. Xu Qing learned from Zhu Hong that Law Stones could be exchanged at the Great Zhou Money House in the First Ring of the first level.

• Xu Qing’s Dao Soldiers killed the ghostly figures sent to infiltrate his residence, and the Brotherhood’s leader Zhu Hong’s men suffered a backlash.
• Over the next five days, the Brotherhood sent increasingly dangerous intruders, all of whom Xu Qing’s Dao Soldiers killed.
• Zhu Hong visited Xu Qing with the bald young man responsible for the attacks and offered him as an apology.
• Xu Qing ordered the bald young man killed, and Zhu Hong personally struck him dead before offering the Brotherhood’s help.
• Xu Qing asked Zhu Hong about Law Stones, and Zhu Hong explained their use, the dangers of mining them, and where they could be exchanged.

Xu Qing learned how Law Stones were obtained and sent Kaya to exchange Origin Stones for one at the Great Zhou Money House. After an ambush by the Hunting Organization cost him a Sixteenth-tier Dao Soldier, he confirmed that the Low-grade Law Stone accelerated his Cycle Law cultivation.

• Zhu Hong explained the Great Zhou Money House’s exchange rates, and Xu Qing learned he had enough Origin Stones to buy one Low-grade Law Stone.
• Xu Qing sent Kaya, Wu Yi, Wu Er, Wu San, and nine Sixteenth-tier Dao Soldiers to exchange ten thousand top-grade Origin Stones for a Low-grade Law Stone.
• Zhu Hong told Wu Hu that currying favor with Xu Qing was an opportunity and warned him not to seek revenge for the Brotherhood member who had died.
• Kaya and the others obtained the Law Stone but were ambushed on their return by the Hunting Organization, and Sixteenth-tier Dao Soldier Number Nine self-destructed to help them escape.
• Kaya reported that the Hunting Organization hunted people who exchanged for Law Stones, and Xu Qing ordered the injured group to rest.
• Xu Qing circulated the Cycle Law while holding the Low-grade Law Stone and felt its energy increase his cultivation speed.

Xu Qing used a Low-grade Law Stone to accelerate his Cycle Law practice and realized he needed more stones, so he bought a weapon shop to make money. After Kaya and the others sorted the shop’s stock, Xu Qing found its weapons were ordinary compared with the items he could upgrade.

• Xu Qing discovered that a Low-grade Law Stone increased his Cycle Law practice speed tenfold but would only last about ten days at his current rate.
• Xu Qing decided to open a weapon shop to earn money for the Law Stones he needed to master the Cycle Law.
• Xu Qing bought the Brotherhood Weapon Shop on Linyun Street from Zhu Hong for ten million taels in gold notes.
• Zhu Hong told Xu Qing that the Hunting Organization ambushed people leaving the Great Zhou Money House and that its leader might have a connection there.
• Kaya and the others sorted the shop’s weapons and equipment, and Xu Qing assessed them against the classifications of First Realm and Second Realm items.

Xu Qing recorded the Brotherhood's weapons and equipment, including the Thousand Faces Mask and Soul Locking Arrow, then decided to expand his staff by buying slaves. He returned to the weapon shop with fifteen half-demon slaves to train them using the weapons.

• Xu Qing recorded the Brotherhood's armory, including its two unique items and three Spirit Pattern Artifacts.
• Xu Qing blood-refined and wore the Thousand Faces Mask, which gained experience while he wore it, and learned that the Soul Locking Arrow gained experience when fired.
• Xu Qing handed the recorded items and weapons to Kaya and the others to train with, then agreed to buy more slaves to staff the weapon shop.
• Xu Qing and Kaya visited the Slave Market on Linyun Street and bought fifteen Second Realm half-demon slaves who had mastered one level of Intent.
• Xu Qing brought the slaves back to the weapon shop and began having them use the weapons and items to gain experience.

Xu Qing trained fifteen half-demon slaves and spent his Origin Stones exchanging for seventeen low-grade Law Stones to cultivate the Cycle Law. As Xu Qing and Kaya left the exchange, they were followed and eventually surrounded in the fourth ring of the Cangzhou Prefecture Capital.

• Xu Qing numbered the fifteen half-demon slaves, gave them pills that raised them to the peak Extraordinary level, and placed them under Kaya’s management.
• After consuming a low-grade Law Stone for ten days, Xu Qing sent his clone Dao Soldier and Kaya to the Great Zhou Money House, where they exchanged all 170,000 top-grade Origin Stones for seventeen low-grade Law Stones.
• Tiger Woman refused to join Black Eagle’s planned robbery after her copper divination stick warned of a Great Ominous Omen, but Black Eagle followed Xu Qing and Kaya.
• Xu Qing and Kaya left the protected inner rings and reached a deserted area in the fourth ring, where a figure blocked their path and others formed an encirclement.

Xu Qing used the Vajra Dao Soldiers’ Divine Abilities to annihilate nine Hunting Organization elites and absorb their energy and True Intent. Three hidden faction elders then revealed themselves, and Xu Qing attacked the Black Blade Sect elder, striking through his defenses and piercing his chest.

• Xu Qing’s Vajra Dao Soldiers killed one of the nine Elite peak Extraordinary attackers with Divine Ability: Annihilation, then devoured his remains and rose to Elite peak Extraordinary.
• Xu Qing killed the other eight attackers and absorbed their origins and True Intent, bringing the Vajra Dao Soldiers to the threshold of Great Accomplishment peak Extraordinary.
• Xu Qing exposed three hidden observers: a Hunting Organization woman, a Black Blade Sect elder, and a Green Peak Sword Sect elder, all at Great Accomplishment peak Extraordinary.
• Xu Qing charged the Black Blade Sect elder and unleashed Divine Ability: Annihilation, shattering his defensive Spirit Pattern Artifacts and piercing his chest with purple-black lightning.

Xu Qing's Vajra Dao Soldiers slaughtered three powerful enemies and absorbed their origins, while Xu Qing gathered Law Stones and trained. He learned that the Cangzhou Dao Bell had rung six times for Cang Lan Yi's engagement, and suspected her mysterious fiancé was his enemy Li Shang, but he stayed in the capital to obtain Law Stones.

• Xu Qing's Vajra Dao Soldiers killed the Black Blade Sect elder, the qipao-clad woman, and the Green Peak Sword Sect elder, then absorbed their origins and raised their Six Layers of True Intent to seventy-two.
• Xu Qing returned to his residence with Kaya, collected seventeen Low-grade Law Stones, and began cultivating the Cycle Law while planning to sell upgraded equipment.
• Seven days later, the Cangzhou Dao Bell rang six times, and Xu Qing learned from Zhu Hong that the bells had sounded three days earlier.
• Zhu Hong told Xu Qing that Cang Lan Yi had become engaged to a powerful man who had touched upon rules and returned to youth after reversing life and death.
• Xu Qing suspected the fiancé was Li Shang, considered the danger of remaining in Cangzhou Prefecture Capital, and decided to stay because he needed its Law Stones.

Xu Qing opened You Jia Weapon Shop on Linyun Street and began selling his upgraded weapons cautiously, displaying the Sky-Slaying Sword as the shop’s first item. A handsome young man recognized its extraordinary craftsmanship and declared he would buy it, though the chapter ended before the sale was completed.

• Xu Qing upgraded the Thousand Faces Mask, Soul Locking Arrow, and his stock of weapons to Level 20, then used the mask to conceal his identity.
• Xu Qing rejected Kaya’s suggestion to move the shop to wealthier districts and ordered her to sell only one Level 20 ordinary weapon at a time without publicity.
• You Jia Weapon Shop opened on Linyun Street, where Kaya displayed the Sky-Slaying Sword and priced it at one thousand top-grade Origin Stones.
• A handsome young man tested the sword with his folding fan, confirmed it was a genuine top-grade Nine-Layered Spirit Pattern Artifact, and praised its transcendent forging craftsmanship.
• The young man said he would buy the Sky-Slaying Sword, surprising Kaya and the gathered crowd.

Xiao Yun bought Xu Qing’s sword for True Person Yun Shang, who seized it to study after another failed forging attempt. Meanwhile, Cang Badao told Li Shang that the bearing of a Dragon Son he had once seen in him had vanished.

• Xiao Yun bought the Sky-Slaying Sword from Kaya for one thousand top-grade Origin Stones, making the weapon shop’s first sale.
• Kaya told the crowd the shop was closing for the day, then reported the sale to Xu Qing, who instructed her to continue the same pattern.
• Xiao Yun returned to the Yan Yun Sect and found True Person Yun Shang scorched by another failed artifact forging.
• True Person Yun Shang snatched the Sky-Slaying Sword from Xiao Yun and ran off to study it, promising to return it later.
• At the Marquis’s Mansion, Cang Badao told Li Shang that the bearing of a Dragon Son he had once seen in him had vanished.

Li Shang joined forces with the Fengdu Ghost King and sought Cang Badao’s help in finding Xu Qing, unaware that Xu Qing had already launched a powerful arrow at him. The arrow broke through the Marquis’s Mansion’s defenses, and Li Shang summoned the Six Paths of Reincarnation to meet it.

• Li Shang agreed to a marriage alliance with Cang Badao and promised the Fengdu Ghost King would support Cang Badao in claiming the imperial title.
• Li Shang asked Cang Badao to use the Heavenly Secret Tower to locate Xu Qing, and Cang Badao agreed.
• Xu Qing drew the level 20 Python Bow with the level 20 Soul Locking Arrow, empowering the shot with his domains and the arrow’s cause-and-effect ability.
• Xu Qing released the arrow’s full power at Li Shang, destroying the Python Bow and causing Xu Qing to cough up blood.
• The Soul Locking Arrow pierced the Marquis’s Mansion’s defenses and reached Li Shang, who summoned the Six Paths of Reincarnation to block it.

Xu Qing learned that his arrow had severely wounded Li Shang and built his weapon shop into a lucrative business while cultivating the Cycle Law. Ye Langtian returned after infiltrating the Blood Demon Cult and reported that Li Shang had been recalled by the Fengdu Ghost King after recovering from his injuries.

• Xu Qing's level 20 Soul Locking Arrow pierced Li Shang's defenses and left him severely injured, prompting Cang Badao to order An Yi to investigate the attacker.
• Zhu Hong told Xu Qing that Li Shang's injuries had forced Cang Badao to cancel the engagement banquet, while Xu Qing's weapon shop gained fame and sold 120 weapons.
• After 150 days of cultivation, Xu Qing used his seventeenth low-grade Law Stone and saw the Cycle Law reach 186,880 experience; Kaya reported that the shop had earned 240,000 top-grade Origin Stones.
• Ye Langtian returned from the Blood Demon Cave with a Blood Demon Seal, remained loyal to Xu Qing, and gained the Blood Sea Law alongside his existing power.
• Ye Langtian reported that Cang Badao planned to join forces with the Fengdu Ghost King and that Li Shang, their intermediary, had been recalled after recovering from his severe injuries.

Xu Qing exchanged Origin Stones for Low-grade Law Stones and devoted himself to cultivating the Cycle Law and Devouring Demonic Art. At You Jia Weapon Shop, Du Hu accused the shop of selling a defective saber, but Xu Qing discovered the weapon had been deliberately cut to frame the shop.

• Xu Qing ordered Kaya and Ye Langtian to exchange 240,000 top-grade Origin Stones for 24 Low-grade Law Stones, then let Ye Langtian keep four for cultivation.
• Xu Qing spent his days meditating on the Cycle Law and his nights practicing the Devouring Demonic Art Second Layer Secret Method, whose experience reached 5.6 billion.
• Du Hu stormed into You Jia Weapon Shop with a broken Divine Tiger Saber and demanded 5,000 top-grade Origin Stones in compensation.
• Xu Qing appeared in disguise, took the saber, and inspected it with his ability.
• Xu Qing learned that a Third Realm blade had deliberately cut the level-20 saber while its power was suppressed, indicating Du Hu was involved in a frame-up.

Xu Qing exposed Du Hu’s sabotage by repairing the broken saber, and the crowd mistook him for a Law Forger. True Person Yun Shang sought to become Xu Qing’s disciple, while news arrived that the Blood Demon Cult’s Cangzhou Branch had discovered an untouched Law Stone Vein.

• Xu Qing repaired Du Hu’s broken saber, revealing that Du Hu had lied about how it broke and prompting the crowd to believe Xu Qing was a Law Forger.
• True Person Yun Shang ordered Xiao Yun and the others to drag Du Hu away, and they killed him outside the shop.
• True Person Yun Shang introduced himself as an elder of the Yan Yun Sect and knelt to ask Xu Qing to accept him as a disciple, but Xu Qing left and refused him.
• Wan Shanren learned that Xu Qing was believed to be a Law Forger and decided not to act against You Jia Weapon Shop.
• Ye Langtian told Xu Qing that the Blood Demon Cult’s Cangzhou Branch had discovered an unmined Law Stone Vein.

Xu Qing learned of a Law Stone Vein and accepted True Person Yun Shang as a registered disciple after receiving a large payment in Law Stones, giving him a Level 20 sword to study. After perfecting two divine abilities through cultivation, Xu Qing remained focused on advancing his Cycle Law, while True Person Yun Shang returned with new insights and was given an even more powerful sword to comprehend.

• Ye Langtian told Xu Qing that an elder of the Blood Demon Cult Cangzhou Branch had discovered a Law Stone Vein in the East Cang Mountain Range, and Xu Qing agreed to let him investigate it.
• True Person Yun Shang offered Xu Qing two hundred low-grade Law Stones and twenty mid-grade Law Stones to become his disciple, and Xu Qing accepted him as a registered disciple named Ou Yezi.
• Xu Qing gave True Person Yun Shang a Level 20 sharp weapon to study and set a three-year deadline for him to become a Law Forger; True Person Yun Shang named it the Yun Shang Sword.
• After half a year of cultivation, Xu Qing upgraded the Devouring Demonic Art Second Layer Secret Method to LV26, entered the Sixth Rotation Demonic Infant Realm, and perfected Devouring Heavens and Swallowing Earth and Annihilation.
• True Person Yun Shang returned from seclusion with insights from studying the Yun Shang Sword, and Xu Qing gave him a Level 20 treasure artifact longsword to comprehend and name.

Xu Qing upgraded the Devouring Demonic Art Second Layer Secret Method and comprehended the Cycle Law, breaking through into the Third Realm: Law Realm. He gained the Hell Path Reincarnation Law Power and began transforming as his cultivation advanced.

• Xu Qing spent a year cultivating while Ye Langtian secretly reported on the Law Stone Vein investigation, and True Person Yun Shang visited to discuss his progress in comprehending the Artifact Refining Law.
• Xu Qing gave True Person Yun Shang a level 20 divine weapon to study, then planned to break through before trying to seize the Law Stone Vein.
• After another year, Xu Qing upgraded the Devouring Demonic Art Second Layer Secret Method to level 27, though it had only reached the threshold of a Law.
• Xu Qing upgraded the Cycle Law to level 2, comprehending the Hell Path and gaining the Hell Reincarnation divine ability and its Law Power.
• Xu Qing's True Intents and body began transforming as visions of Black and White Impermanence, Ox-Head and Horse-Face, Judges, and Yama Kings appeared around him.

Xu Qing completed his breakthrough into the Third Realm: Law Realm and tested how Law Stones accelerated his Cycle Law practice. After upgrading his equipment and advancing the Cycle Law, he reached twelve percent mastery and improved Hell Reincarnation to minor mastery.

• The Cangzhou Dao Bell rang when Xu Qing broke through, announcing the birth of another Law Realm powerhouse.
• After three days of stabilizing his cultivation, Xu Qing learned that Law Realm strength depended on mastery of Laws and tested his practice speed with Law Stones.
• Xu Qing found that a Low-grade Law Stone sped up his Cycle Law practice tenfold, while a Mid-grade Law Stone increased it a thousandfold.
• Xu Qing used the Omni-Codex to raise his prepared weapons and equipment from level 20 to level 30, and his Thousand Faces Mask gained power that touched the level of Laws.
• After three days of intensive practice, Xu Qing upgraded the Cycle Law to LV3, reached twelve percent mastery, and advanced Hell Reincarnation to minor mastery.

True Person Yun Shang broke through to become a Law Forger and presented his first Law Artifact to Xu Qing, who accepted him as an official disciple of the Dragon Spring Sect. Xu Qing showed him a LV30 Iron Sword as a distant goal, and the chapter ended with Ye Langtian reporting that the discovered Law Stone Vein was third-tier.

• True Person Yun Shang forged the Pure Yang Sword, broke through to become a Law Forger, and left the Yan Yun Sect to visit Xu Qing.
• Xu Qing accepted Yun Shang as his official disciple after inspecting the Pure Yang Sword and told him the Dragon Spring Sect had no special Artifact Refining Secret Method.
• Xu Qing revealed his LV30 Iron Sword, explained that Yun Shang could graduate when he forged one like it, and urged him to progress steadily.
• Xu Qing put away the Iron Sword and considered the risks of selling his powerful upgraded weapons in the Cangzhou Prefecture Capital.
• Ye Langtian projected his image before Xu Qing and reported that the Law Stone Vein had been confirmed as third-tier.

Xu Qing gave his nineteen servants upgraded pills that let them enter the Third Realm: Law Realm. Their breakthroughs rang the Cangzhou Dao Bell nineteen times, leaving the prefecture capital shocked.

• Ye Langtian told Xu Qing that the Blood Demon Cult had discovered a Law Stone Vein but could not leak news of it, so Xu Qing decided to handle the matter himself.
• Xu Qing summoned Kaya, Wu Yi, Wu Er, Wu San, and Numbers One through Fifteen, then gave them upgraded Heaven Bridge Pills and Mortal Shedding Pills.
• The nineteen servants consumed the LV30 Heaven Bridge Pills and, after absorbing their power, each grasped ten percent of Martial Path Law and entered the Third Realm: Law Realm.
• The Cangzhou Dao Bell rang nineteen times as the servants broke through, shocking the people and forces across the Cangzhou Prefecture Capital.
• Xu Qing told the servants to stabilize their cultivation and then consume the LV20 Mortal Shedding Pills.

Xu Qing sent his nineteen servants to expose the Blood Demon Cult Cangzhou Branch’s Law Stone Vein, drawing the attention of powerful factions and forcing his servants to fight their way back. After upgrading his Cycle Law, he prepared his LV30 Dragon Bone Bow and Curse Arrow.

• Xu Qing’s nineteen servants mastered the Martial Path Law and Ghostly Oddity Law to ten percent each after taking the upgraded Mortal Shedding Pill.
• Xu Qing ordered the servants to spread word that the Blood Demon Cult Cangzhou Branch had found a third-tier Law Stone Vein in the East Cang Mountain Range.
• The Blood Demon Cult pursued the servants as rumors spread, while Ye Langtian warned Xu Qing that the vein might actually be a fourth-tier vein.
• Kaya reported that the factions believed the rumors after the Blood Demon Cult attacked, but Number Ten and Number Fifteen self-detonated to help the others escape.
• Xu Qing upgraded his Cycle Law to LV4, reaching fifteen percent mastery and mastering the Hell Path Reincarnation Law Power.
• Xu Qing took out his LV30 Dragon Bone Bow and Curse Arrow.