Chapter Summaries

After defeating Jueyuan’s challenge, Li Changfeng received rewards for several completed quests and was assigned new tasks involving Princess Minmin and the Shaolin Bronze Body Skill. He discovered that his body was not yet ready for the skill’s next breakthrough, so he strengthened Draconic Elephant Prajna instead and reached its seventh level.

• Li Changfeng spoke with Juehai about joining Subduing Dragon Hall and agreed to join after learning about its rewards.
• Jueyuan prepared to sneak attack Li Changfeng, but his master stopped him and ordered him to copy the scriptures one hundred times.
• Li Changfeng received rewards for completed quests, then accepted a new quest to help Princess Minmin and a side quest to advance the Shaolin Bronze Body Skill.
• Li Changfeng tried to spend Experience Points on the Shaolin Bronze Body Skill, but the system said he first needed to temper his sinews and bones.
• Li Changfeng spent sixty thousand Experience Points to advance Draconic Elephant Prajna to the seventh level, greatly increasing his strength and Inner Force.

Li Changfeng used a ten-pull to obtain Dragon Sinew Tiger Bone Pills and System Experience Points, then spent experience perfecting his martial arts. He demonstrated his immense power by destroying a hill and the falling boulders, leaving the Subduing Tiger Hall disciples stunned.

• Li Changfeng drew Lucky Packs and received Dragon Sinew Tiger Bone Pills, System Experience Points, and a bonus reward.
• Li Changfeng stored the pills and spent nearly twenty-six thousand Experience Points raising his martial arts to perfection.
• Li Changfeng used Returning Dragon Eighteen Swords to slice a small hill in two.
• Li Changfeng caught and flung the falling boulder with Shaolin Dragon Grasp, then shattered it with Vajra Leg of Immense Power and Flying Daggers of Li.
• Li Changfeng punched another falling boulder into powder with brute force, drawing Subduing Tiger Hall disciples to investigate.
• Li Changfeng told the disciples that he had destroyed the hill while practicing.

Li Changfeng encountered the Kitchen Monk, who revealed his Grandmaster strength and struck him with the Nine Yin Heart Shattering Palm. The other monks found Li Changfeng gravely injured, and Abbot Hongchen proposed seeking their senior brother to save him.

• Jietan revealed that he knew only that the spy was hiding in one of Shaolin Temple's side halls, so Jie Chen and the others moved to investigate.
• Li Changfeng met the Kitchen Monk, who unleashed the Nine Yin Heart Shattering Palm against him.
• Li Changfeng's defenses failed, and the Kitchen Monk's attack shattered his arms, severed his meridians, and left him near death before the Kitchen Monk fled.
• The bell's toll brought Abbot Hongchen and the Hall Masters of Subduing Tiger and Subduing Dragon to the ruined bell, where they found Li Changfeng unconscious.
• The Hall Masters of Subduing Tiger and Subduing Dragon and Abbot Hongchen poured Inner Force into Li Changfeng, but the Hall Master of Subduing Dragon warned he would likely become a cripple.
• Abbot Hongchen suggested asking their senior brother, the Abbot, to save Li Changfeng, and the Hall Master of Subduing Dragon asked if he meant to use that method.

Shaolin Abbot Xuan Nan performed Tendon-Changing and Meridian-Restoring to save Li Changfeng, reconnecting his meridians and greatly increasing his Inner Force. Seven days later, Li Changfeng woke and learned that Shaolin planned to conceal his recovery so the spies would lower their guard.

• Hall Master of Subduing Tiger brought the gravely injured Li Changfeng to Shaolin Abbot Xuan Nan, who agreed to attempt a dangerous treatment.
• Abbot Hongchen and Hall Master of Subduing Dragon suspected a missing Kitchen Monk was the spy, and Jie Chen went to recall the search party.
• Xuan Nan reconnected Li Changfeng's severed meridians as Li Changfeng endured intense pain, gaining fifty years of Inner Force before passing out.
• Xuan Nan told Hall Master of Subduing Tiger that Li Changfeng had survived and grown stronger, and Hall Master of Subduing Tiger set his broken arms.
• The Shaolin leaders decided to spread word that Li Changfeng's martial arts had been crippled to deceive the spies.
• Seven days later, Li Changfeng woke, read and destroyed a note, and resolved to hide his strength while his meridians recovered.

Li Changfeng discovered his Inner Force had risen to five hundred years’ worth, but concealed the full extent of his strength while his friends worried about his injuries. Seven days later, mostly recovered, he endured ridicule from Subduing Tiger Hall disciples and Meng Mingzhi without revealing what he could do.

• Li Changfeng found his Inner Force had increased and his meridians had strengthened, then pretended to be seriously injured when Golden Arhat and Dong Tianbao found him fallen on the floor.
• Golden Arhat and Dong Tianbao offered Li Changfeng their support, and he shared tea with them before asking them to leave him alone.
• Juehai visited Li Changfeng and promised to find a way to heal his injuries, but accidentally hurt him by patting his shoulder.
• Seven days later, Li Changfeng removed his plaster and went outside, still unable to use his True Qi recklessly but capable of wielding nearly twenty thousand jin of strength.
• Subduing Tiger Hall disciples mocked Li Changfeng as a cripple, and Meng Mingzhi taunted and threatened him as he walked past without retaliating.

Li Changfeng was lured to Yinling Slope with a false claim that Wu Gui had been captured, where his enemies confronted him over killing a young man. When more than a hundred disciples attacked, Li Changfeng revealed that he was not crippled and crushed their assault with overwhelming strength.

• Two conspirators plotted to kill Li Changfeng, and a hidden black-clad man watched their scheme unfold.
• Li Changfeng received a note claiming Wu Gui was hostage and went alone to Yinling Slope, leaving a note for his master and carrying a Thunderfire Pearl.
• The bald man accused Li Changfeng of killing his son, while the young pair he had spared at the teahouse identified him as their junior brother's killer.
• The bald man and an old Daoist ordered their disciples to attack Li Changfeng and test his strength.
• Li Changfeng cracked the ground with a stomp and hurled a massive boulder into the attackers, crushing many and terrifying the survivors.

Li Changfeng slaughtered the attacking disciples while hidden observers watched, and the two leaders tried to wear him down from a distance. He killed the remaining attackers but still had not forced the leaders to fight.

• Hidden groups watched Li Changfeng’s strength, and one observer recognized Jue Kong as someone who was supposed to be dead.
• The two leaders ordered ten peak second-rate disciples to attack Li Changfeng from afar, but he shattered their strikes and drove them back.
• The leaders mistook Li Changfeng’s feigned exhaustion for real weakness and urged their followers to attack for the promised reward of becoming personal disciples.
• Li Changfeng hurled rocks and weapons into the crowd, then charged the ten disciples and killed them, including the young woman and her senior brother.
• Li Changfeng killed the last three Golden Saber Sect disciples with rocks as they fled for their master.

Li Changfeng faced the Qingyun Temple Master and Golden Saber Sect Master, overpowering their attacks with his immense strength and hard body. He also crippled the Qingfeng Temple Master’s arm, leaving him wary and contemplating escape while Li Changfeng grew interested in taking his defensive martial art.

• The Qingyun Temple Master attacked Li Changfeng with Qingyun Swordplay, but Li Changfeng shattered the sword-energy blades with a palm strike.
• The Golden Saber Sect Master charged Li Changfeng, who caught his saber barehanded and kicked him flying through several trees.
• The Qingfeng Temple Master stabbed Li Changfeng from behind, but his sword bent against Li Changfeng’s body.
• Li Changfeng punched the Qingfeng Temple Master, whose Sleeve Universe technique blocked most of the blow but left his arm fractured and his sleeve destroyed.
• The Qingfeng Temple Master began considering escape, while Li Changfeng decided he wanted to seize the defensive martial art.

Li Changfeng fought the Golden Saber Sect Master, the Qingfeng Temple Master, and Imperial Court agents who had tried to use the two masters to test his strength. He devastated their attack and left the surviving black-clad men terrified as the fight continued.

• Li Changfeng shattered the Golden Saber Sect Master's Golden Light Slash with a palm strike, and the wounded sect master and Qingfeng Temple Master decided to retreat.
• Black-clad men emerged, surrounded the two masters, and forced them to join their effort to kill Li Changfeng.
• Li Changfeng confirmed that the black-clad men claimed to serve the Imperial Court and used Savage Elephant Tramples the Heavens to repel their combined attack.
• The black-clad men and the two masters attacked again, but Li Changfeng lifted a huge slab of ground to break their assault and charged through the opening.
• Li Changfeng killed two black-clad men with a punch, while the survivors panicked and were told to flee before he could get close.

Li Changfeng slaughtered the black-clad attackers and fought their leaders, only to discover that one was his Big Brother. After his Big Brother died to atone for his betrayal, Li Changfeng unleashed his Inner Force and confronted the remaining enemies.

• Li Changfeng charged into the black-clad crowd, killing many with the Vajra Leg of Immense Power and Shaolin Dragon Claw Hand.
• The first black-clad leader attacked Li Changfeng with the Great Vehicle Vajra Palm, but Li Changfeng’s Dragon Claw Hand neutralized the strike.
• The second leader fought Li Changfeng at close range with the Vajra Palm of Immense Strength, and Li Changfeng shattered his arms and struck his chest.
• The defeated leader revealed himself as Li Changfeng’s Big Brother, confessed that he had secretly freed Third Brother, and warned that a Grandmaster expert was hiding nearby before dying.
• Li Changfeng roared in grief and released five hundred points of Inner Force, shocking the remaining attackers who had believed he was crippled.

Li Changfeng wiped out the black-clad attackers with a devastating technique, then confronted the hidden black-clad grandmaster despite his injuries. Their fight left the grandmaster wounded, and Li Changfeng realized he belonged to the evil path.

• Li Changfeng gathered the weapons around him and hurled them into the crowd, killing the black-clad men, including Jueyuan and Meng Mingzhi.
• After the attack worsened his meridian pain, Li Changfeng repelled the black-clad grandmaster's ambush with a palm strike.
• The grandmaster guessed that Chen Dali had warned Li Changfeng, and Li Changfeng declared that he would kill him.
• Li Changfeng attacked with Returning Dragon Three Swords, while the grandmaster countered with Hundred Leaf Hand; their techniques clashed without either gaining the upper hand.
• Li Changfeng closed in with his golden saber and wounded the grandmaster across the chest despite his Phantom Step.
• Li Changfeng recognized the grandmaster's movement technique and realized he was one of the evil path.

Li Changfeng fought a black-clad Grandmaster who blamed him for exposing the unorthodox path’s spies, while hidden allies called for reinforcements. After both combatants were badly injured, the Grandmaster fled, and a Wind and Rain Pavilion Grandmaster arrived to question the concealed observers.

• The black-clad Grandmaster accused Li Changfeng of exposing the unorthodox path’s agents, and Li Changfeng mocked their deaths before they fought.
• The hidden group sent up a distress signal, which Li Changfeng and the black-clad Grandmaster each mistook for the other’s call for reinforcements.
• The Hall Master of Subduing Tiger and a Wind and Rain Pavilion Grandmaster hurried toward Yinling Slope after the signal appeared.
• The black-clad Grandmaster unleashed Vengeful Spirits Fill the Heavens, and Li Changfeng countered with Eighteen Swords as One; their collision severely injured Li Changfeng and wounded his opponent.
• Li Changfeng took out a Thunderfire Pearl, but the black-clad Grandmaster retreated before he could use it.
• A man in white brocade robes arrived and asked what had happened as five concealed figures emerged atop boulders.

Li Changfeng survived the fight with the evil sect grandmaster but suffered severe meridian injuries and latent damage that could hinder his future breakthrough. Commander Bai treated him and pointed the Hall Master of Subduing Tiger toward a rare pill that might cure the latent injuries, leaving the Hall Master to seek help from the Imperial Court.

• Commander Bai arrived after the evil sect grandmaster fled and learned that Li Changfeng had fought him to protect Master Jue Kong’s identity.
• Li Changfeng collapsed from his injuries, and Commander Bai found that his meridians had been torn apart again, leaving latent damage.
• Commander Bai gave Li Changfeng a Meridian-Soothing White Deer Pill and helped suppress his worsening meridian injuries.
• The Hall Master of Subduing Tiger arrived, scolded Li Changfeng for facing danger while injured, and examined his condition.
• Commander Bai told the Hall Master of Subduing Tiger that a Meridian Cleansing Pill from Medicine God Valley could treat Li Changfeng’s latent injuries.
• The Hall Master of Subduing Tiger agreed to set aside his pride and ask Commander Lu about obtaining the pill, while Commander Bai introduced himself as Bai Jianchen of the Wind and Rain Pavilion.

Li Changfeng recovered from his injuries, but his Latent Injury still required a Meridian Cleansing Pill. The Hall Master of Subduing Tiger went to Commander Lu to request one, and Commander Lu agreed to obtain it in exchange for a favor from a person he already knew the Hall Master wanted to save.

• Bai Jianchen left after praising the Hall Master of Subduing Tiger for helping expose Despair Valley.
• The Hall Master of Subduing Tiger told Li Changfeng he had killed an evil-path grandmaster, then warned him against impulsively challenging a Grandmaster with Thunderfire Pearls.
• Wu Gui mourned the boss who had saved him, then returned to the Dragon Gate Escort Agency with Du Jinxiu while Li Changfeng went back to Shaolin Temple to recover.
• After a month, Li Changfeng's injuries had healed, but his Latent Injury remained; Golden Arhat, Dong Tianbao, and Juehai discovered his deception and tickled him as punishment.
• The Hall Master of Subduing Tiger asked Commander Lu for a Meridian Cleansing Pill to treat a junior's Latent Injury, and Commander Lu offered to obtain one if someone did him a favor.

Li Changfeng accepted a dangerous Imperial Court mission in exchange for a Meridian Cleansing Pill and went to the Imperial Capital, where he discovered growing tension between powerful factions. After killing a guard from the War Prince Manor for attacking a young woman and striking a Brocade-Clad Guard, he faced a fellow guard's warning that the War Prince Manor would retaliate.

• The Hall Master of Subduing Tiger offered Li Changfeng a Meridian Cleansing Pill and compensation if he helped the Imperial Court, and Li Changfeng accepted and set out at once.
• Princess Minmin learned that her plan had been arranged and said she believed Li Changfeng would come.
• Li Changfeng entered the Imperial Capital disguised as Brocade-Clad Guard Captain Wu Tiande and sensed rival forces clashing in secret.
• Li Changfeng confronted a War Prince Manor guard who was dragging a young woman through the street and threatened him for breaking the law.
• The guard attacked Li Changfeng with a saber, but the blade rebounded off his neck, and Li Changfeng killed the guard with a hand blade.
• A fellow Brocade-Clad Guard warned Li Changfeng that the War Prince Manor could use the killing against them, but Li Changfeng insisted that imperial law had to be upheld.

Li Changfeng killed Eunuch Liu of the Western Depot after the eunuch tried to arrest him, then continued to the Town Military Command. Commander Lu agreed not to punish or surrender Li Changfeng and hoped to use his strength against the Western Depot.

• A Western Depot eunuch challenged Li Changfeng and tried to gouge out his eyes, but Li Changfeng blinded and brutally killed him.
• Li Changfeng noticed a violent thrill in his increasingly brutal way of killing, then headed for the Town Military Command with two Brocade-Clad Guards.
• A Brocade-Clad Guard told Commander Lu that Captain Wu Tiande had killed a War Prince Manor guard and Eunuch Liu, and asked him not to punish or hand Li Changfeng over.
• Commander Lu promised to protect Li Changfeng and ordered the guard to bring him in.
• Commander Lu recalled how Yuhuatian had weakened the Brocade-Clad Guard and Eastern Depot, and regarded Li Changfeng as a powerful ally in confronting the Western Depot.

Li Changfeng joined the Brocade-Clad Guard after Commander Lu gave him a Meridian Cleansing Pill and assigned him to Princess Minmin. At Princess Manor, he reconciled with Mo Dun, who offered him a powerful leg technique and revealed that the Shaolin Abbot had secretly allowed him to act as a spy.

• Commander Lu gave Li Changfeng a Meridian Cleansing Pill and appointed him Thousand-Household Wu, ordering him to follow Princess Minmin.
• Princess Minmin exchanged a one-use Jade Scroll containing a disguise manual for Li Changfeng's Azure Rainbow sword and golden saber, which she planned to forge into a sharp weapon.
• Mo Dun appeared before Li Changfeng and offered a leg technique as an apology for injuring him.
• Li Changfeng recognized the technique as a Primal Chaos Martial Skill and suspected Mo Dun had another reason for giving it to him.
• Mo Dun revealed that the Shaolin Abbot had known he was a spy and had secretly let him go, so Mo Dun was repaying the Abbot's kindness.

Li Changfeng purged his latent injuries and spent months training the first move of the Dominating Leg Technique. After finally unleashing it, he was struck by its chaotic qi backlash and left gravely injured.

• Li Changfeng swallowed a Meridian Cleansing Pill, purged his latent injuries, and gained strength as his Inner Force flowed more smoothly.
• Li Changfeng examined Old Mo's incomplete Dominating Leg Technique and entered seclusion to practice it.
• After months of repeated failures, Li Changfeng finally unleashed the first move, One Success Achieved Over Ten Thousand Corpses.
• The chaotic qi formed nine afterimages that attacked Li Changfeng, shattering his Shaolin Bronze Body Skill and forcing him to counter with the Dragon Subduing Eighteen Palms.
• Two remaining leg strikes hit Li Changfeng, broke his breastbone, and left him severely injured.

Li Changfeng finished a year of training, recovered from his injuries, and received a powerful sword from Princess Minmin. After she put him in charge of suppressing hostile sects, he confronted the skeptical Hundred-Households and challenged them to take his sword, offering to fight with both feet and one hand disabled.

• Li Changfeng mastered the beginner level of the Dominating Leg Technique, cleared his accumulated injuries, and later learned the Mount Song Swordplay.
• Princess Minmin gave Li Changfeng a pale red longsword and assigned him to lead the campaign against sects conspiring against the Brocade-Clad Guard and Eastern Depot.
• Li Changfeng returned to Thousand-Household Manor and overheard his Hundred-Households questioning his appointment and ability.
• Li Changfeng planted his sword in the floor and offered to give it and his position to anyone who could seize it from him.
• Li Changfeng offered to fight with both feet and one hand disabled so the Hundred-Households could not accuse him of bullying them.

Li Changfeng tested nine Hundred-Household Officers and defeated them with overwhelming skill, judging each fighter’s technique as they attacked. The final officer’s Mountain-Splitting Strike also failed, leaving the group beaten but impressed by their Commander.

• The nine Hundred-Household Officers charged Li Changfeng, and he knocked aside Old Li’s saber strike with a flick of his fingers.
• Li Changfeng caught Old Wang’s saber between two fingers, bent and released it, and split Wang’s palm with its rebound.
• Li Changfeng caught Old Zhou’s saber with his palm and flung it past Zhou’s face, terrifying him into retreat.
• Five coordinated officers attacked together, but Li Changfeng caught and tangled their swords before sending them flying and praising their teamwork.
• The sinister Hundred-Household Officer tried to assassinate Li Changfeng from behind, but Li Changfeng blocked the blade with his fingers.
• The last officer unleashed Mountain-Splitting Strike, and Li Changfeng’s hand blade knocked aside the greatsword and sent him crashing to the ground.