Chapter Summaries

Li Changfeng began helping people daily and was briefly suspected of murdering two men he had previously crippled, but witnesses established his alibi. Seven days later, he found that Grandma and Xiao Qing were missing from their usual stall and worried something had happened to them.

• Li Changfeng gave Xiao Qing silver instead of candy and resolved to do a good deed every day.
• Li Changfeng saw two men he had crippled dead from a thousand cuts and agreed to go with Officer Chen for questioning.
• An inn waiter testified that Li Changfeng had stayed at the inn all day, and Officer Chen released him.
• Over the next seven days, Li Changfeng helped Grandma sell pears and assisted other people around Cloud City.
• Li Changfeng arrived at Grandma's stall and learned from Da Niu that Grandma and Xiao Qing had not appeared that morning.

Li Changfeng arrived at the old woman's home and killed the thugs who had attacked her and Xiao Qing, but he could not break his seal to save the mortally wounded old woman. After she died, Li Changfeng promised to raise Xiao Qing and teach her martial arts, and she fell asleep on his shoulder.

• Li Changfeng found the old woman gravely injured while she shielded Xiao Qing from thugs who planned to sell the girl.
• Li Changfeng killed the thugs, who revealed that they belonged to the Poison Salt Gang and the Canal Transport Gang.
• Li Changfeng tried to heal the old woman but could not use his true qi because of the seal.
• The old woman asked Li Changfeng to raise Xiao Qing, then died after he promised to care for her.
• Xiao Qing mourned her grandmother, vowed to become a heroine, and asked Li Changfeng not to abandon her.
• Li Changfeng promised to raise and teach Xiao Qing, and she fell asleep against his shoulder.

Li Changfeng buried Xiao Qing’s grandmother and promised to care for the girl, then learned from Officer Chen that the Poison Salt Gang, the Canal Transport Gang, and the authorities were hunting him. Li Changfeng refused to flee Cloud City and planned to eliminate every underground force there, while Xiao Qing remained with him.

• Li Changfeng buried the old woman in her Pear Garden, and Xiao Qing asked to stay beside her grave for the night.
• Li Changfeng cooked Beggar’s Chicken for Xiao Qing, who ate while grieving and vowed to repay his kindness.
• Officer Chen appeared and warned Li Changfeng that the two gangs and corrupt authorities were searching for him, offering to help him escape.
• Li Changfeng refused to leave Cloud City before completing his revenge, despite Officer Chen’s warning about the gangs’ powerful leaders.
• Officer Chen offered to fight alongside Li Changfeng, who instead asked him to gather intelligence and declared his intention to wipe out the city’s underground forces.

Li Changfeng vowed to eliminate Cloud City's underground forces and corrupt officials, then set out with Xiao Qing and Officer Chen to confront the Poison Salt Gang and Canal Transport Gang. He arrived at the Black Heart Inn after silently killing their guards and faced the two gang leaders.

• Li Changfeng made a Buddhist Grand Vow to wipe out Cloud City's underground forces, and Officer Chen promised to help him gather information.
• Li Changfeng agreed to take Xiao Qing with him, and three days later Officer Chen reported that the gang leaders were at the Black Heart Inn.
• Li Changfeng headed for the inn with Xiao Qing, telling Officer Chen to protect her while he dealt with the gangs.
• The Poison Salt Gang leader and Canal Transport Gang leader ate grotesque dishes and planned to capture Li Changfeng the next day.
• Li Changfeng arrived at the Black Heart Inn with Xiao Qing and Officer Chen after killing the gang members guarding it without making a sound.
• Li Changfeng told the two gang leaders that their subordinates were dead and that they would die next, and they prepared to fight him.

Li Changfeng easily withstood the Poison Salt Gang Leader and Canal Transport Gang Leader’s attacks, then struck them down after discovering the evidence of their crimes. When reinforcements surrounded him at the Black Heart Inn, he sent Officer Chen and Xiao Qing upstairs and charged into the crowd.

• The Poison Salt Gang Leader doused Li Changfeng with corrosive poison salt, but it could not harm his body.
• The Canal Transport Gang Leader attacked with his Tiger-Head Twin Hooks, but Li Changfeng’s body repelled the blows and warped the hooks.
• Li Changfeng shattered the Poison Salt Gang Leader’s poisonous palm strike and sent him crashing into a table, then discovered placentas and dead infants on the ground.
• Li Changfeng smashed the Canal Transport Gang Leader’s hooks and armor, leaving him badly injured but alive.
• Men from both gangs entered the Black Heart Inn and surrounded Li Changfeng, who told Officer Chen to take Xiao Qing upstairs.
• Li Changfeng charged into the attackers and unleashed his Vajra Leg of Immense Power, rapidly defeating the surrounding gang members.

Li Changfeng slaughtered the gangs’ minions and killed the Canal Transport Gang leader and Poison Salt Gang leader after they tried to take Officer Chen and Xiao Qing hostage. His attack destroyed the inn, leaving Officer Chen and Xiao Qing outside to worry about whether he had survived.

• The Canal Transport Gang leader realized Li Changfeng relied on brute strength, so he and the Poison Salt Gang leader ordered their minions to attack him from a distance.
• Li Changfeng charged through the attacks, killed the minions with his fists and feet, then used flying daggers to finish them off.
• The two gang leaders tried to seize Officer Chen and Xiao Qing as hostages, but Li Changfeng hurled blades at them and wounded them as Officer Chen escaped through a window.
• The gang leaders tried to flee, but Li Changfeng unleashed Savage Elephant Tramples the Heavens and razed the inn, killing them in the destruction.
• The Black Heart Proprietor found his inn flattened and the gang leaders dead, while Officer Chen and Xiao Qing waited outside and worried about Li Changfeng.

Li Changfeng confronted the Black Heart Proprietor, who begged for forgiveness and promised to change. After Xiao Qing pleaded for him, Li Changfeng spared him and ordered him to protect her, and the Black Heart Proprietor began to change his ways.

• Li Changfeng recognized the Black Heart Proprietor, who fell to his knees and begged to be freed from the Life and Death Talisman.
• The Black Heart Proprietor admitted he had dealt in dead placentas and stillborn infants, then promised to devote himself to Buddhism and do good deeds.
• Officer Chen and Xiao Qing arrived, and Xiao Qing pleaded with Li Changfeng to spare the bleeding Black Heart Proprietor.
• Li Changfeng forgave the Black Heart Proprietor on the condition that he stay by Xiao Qing's side and protect her.
• Xiao Qing gave the Black Heart Proprietor medicine and a handkerchief, inspiring him to abandon his former ways and dismiss his subordinates.
• Li Changfeng gave the Black Heart Proprietor an antidote that temporarily relieved the Life and Death Talisman.

Li Changfeng planned to draw the underground factions and the authorities to Pear Garden and kill them. As a force of more than a thousand surrounded the garden, he prepared to face them.

• Officer Chen warned Li Changfeng that the authorities and underground factions would target him after he destroyed the Canal Transport Gang and Poison Salt Gang, but Li Changfeng said he had a plan.
• Li Changfeng summoned the Viper Gang Leader and Azure Pavilion Lord, gave them temporary antidotes for their Life and Death Talismans, and ordered them to lure the factions and authorities to Pear Garden.
• Magistrate Wang ordered the constables to capture and kill the Flower Monk, then stopped Officer Chen from leaving to warn Li Changfeng.
• Li Changfeng drank snow pear soup at Pear Garden as more than a thousand people, including underground faction leaders and First-Rate Peak experts, surrounded it.

Li Changfeng protected Xiao Qing while slaughtering the forces surrounding them, despite Officer Chen’s fears. He killed the remaining leaders with a devastating attack, leaving the Viper Gang Leader, the Azure Pavilion Lord, and the Black Heart Proprietor to escape.

• Xiao Qing clung to Li Changfeng as the ten leaders sent over a thousand men to attack him, while Officer Chen offered to help him escape.
• Li Changfeng fought back while keeping Xiao Qing safe against his chest, killing minions with his palms, legs, and dragon claws until the crowd fled in terror.
• The ten leaders forced their minions to stop fleeing and charged at Li Changfeng, but the Viper Gang Leader and the Azure Pavilion Lord betrayed two leaders and revealed they had lured the others there on their lord’s orders.
• Li Changfeng told the Black Heart Proprietor to support the Viper Gang Leader and the Azure Pavilion Lord and escape while he prepared to kill everyone else.
• Li Changfeng unleashed Savage Elephant Tramples the Heavens, killing every minion and blasting the six remaining leaders apart.

Li Changfeng and Officer Chen brought down the corrupt official and his constables before parting ways, while Princess Minmin led the Brocade-Clad Guards in executing Cloud City's City Lord. The chapter ended with the city sealed off as the guards prepared to arrest the remaining accomplices.

• Officer Chen turned against the corrupt official, and several constables joined him after rejecting their former master's orders.
• Li Changfeng ordered Black Heart Proprietor and the other two to kill the corrupt head constables and constables, while Officer Chen beheaded the corrupt official.
• Officer Chen and his followers fled Cloud City, deciding not to expose the Grandmaster-level mastermind, and pledged to remain together as fugitives.
• Princess Minmin confronted and executed the City Lord after the Brocade-Clad Guards surrounded his residence and presented evidence of his crimes.
• Princess Minmin learned that Cloud City was sealed off and ordered the Brocade-Clad Guards to arrest the remaining accomplices.

Li Changfeng and his companions hid in the Azure Pavilion Lord’s brothel after finding Cloud City’s gates sealed, while Princess Minmin investigated the killings at Pear Garden. Three days later, she confronted Officer Chen and learned that he had joined the attack but did not know who had killed the underground faction members.

• Li Changfeng and his companions found Cloud City’s gates guarded by Brocade-Clad Guards, so the Azure Pavilion Lord led them to her brothel and its secret chamber.
• Xiao Qing secretly peeked at the brothel’s customers, and Li Changfeng caught her before the Azure Pavilion Lord went out to gather information.
• Princess Minmin inspected Pear Garden, found bodies and missing officials, and ordered the Brocade-Clad Guards to locate the missing people.
• Three days later, the Brocade-Clad Guards surrounded Officer Chen and his constables, who admitted they had taken part in killing the people at Pear Garden.
• Princess Minmin revealed the City Lord’s head and explained that her forces had already killed him, then asked Officer Chen who had killed the others.

Princess Minmin searched Cloud City for Li Changfeng, who hid in a brothel with his companions until they tried to escape. She revealed that she had been looking for him to confirm he was safe, then secured his promise to attend the Heroes Assembly Tournament in Southern Emperor Province three years later.

• Princess Minmin ordered the Brocade-Clad Guards to search Cloud City for the unknown person Officer Chen had described.
• The Azure Pavilion Lord told Li Changfeng that the citywide search made escape difficult, so they decided to wait in the brothel's secret chamber.
• After seven days of fruitless searching, Princess Minmin sent the Brocade-Clad Guards away from Cloud City as part of her plan.
• Li Changfeng and his companions climbed over the city wall, but Princess Minmin and her guards surrounded them outside the city.
• Li Changfeng revealed his identity, and Princess Minmin explained that she had only wanted to confirm he was safe.
• Princess Minmin asked Li Changfeng to attend the Heroes Assembly Tournament in Southern Emperor Province three years later, and he agreed.

Li Changfeng parted ways with Princess Minmin and learned that the Azure Pavilion Lord was Killer Bee’s younger sister. After traveling to Northern Di City, he and his companions looked for lodging in the snowy city.

• Princess Minmin left after agreeing to meet Li Changfeng again in three years, and Chen Quan apologized for revealing his identity.
• In a mountain cave, Xiao Qing confirmed Li Changfeng was her uncle and chose to call him Big Brother.
• Li Changfeng said he planned to hunt Butcher Chou Wansen and Killer Bee, but the Azure Pavilion Lord revealed Killer Bee was her older sister and defended her actions.
• Li Changfeng agreed to meet Killer Bee before deciding what to do, and the Azure Pavilion Lord promised to take him to her.
• After half a month of travel, Li Changfeng and his companions reached Northern Di City, where an old woman offered them rooms and food for thirty copper coins.

Li Changfeng and his companions stayed at an inn where the old man sold Blackheart and Viper a powerful aphrodisiac concoction. The next day, Azure led Li Changfeng to meet her sister, but the potion’s lingering effects surged when he saw the Purple-Robed Temptress.

• Li Changfeng paid for four rooms at the inn after Xiao Qing insisted on sharing his room.
• The white-haired old man sold Blackheart and Viper aphrodisiac concoction, while teasing Li Changfeng about a tonic.
• The next morning, Blackheart and Viper admitted the potion had driven them to the brothel, where the madam accepted their payment and let them in.
• Li Changfeng awkwardly asked Azure to take him to meet her sister, and Azure led him to a heavily trapped Hidden Stronghold.
• Azure introduced Li Changfeng to the alluring Purple-Robed Temptress, and the potion’s lingering effects made his lust surge.

Killer Bee attacked Li Changfeng, but his Indestructible Divine Skill made him impervious to her daggers and kicks. After pretending to submit, she tried to strike his groin, and Li Changfeng discovered that his body had endured the blow as he threatened her in fury.

• Killer Bee awakened, saw Qingyi with Li Changfeng, and attacked him with her twin daggers.
• Li Changfeng's body stopped Killer Bee's blades, and he taunted her as she tried to strike his groin and eyes.
• Li Changfeng seized Killer Bee's daggers and drove her back until Qingyi pleaded for him to spare her.
• Killer Bee pretended to submit as Ziyi, then drew another dagger and slashed at Li Changfeng's groin.
• Killer Bee's dagger was knocked away, and Li Changfeng realized he was unharmed before angrily threatening her.

Li Changfeng forced Killer Bee to submit, marked her with a Life and Death Talisman, and brought her back to the inn. After learning that Butcher Chou Wansen had ties to the Hall of the Killing God, Li Changfeng considered where to find him, while Chou Wansen gained two powerful allies who planned to kill Li Changfeng.

• Li Changfeng subdued Killer Bee, threatened her into submission, and sent a Life and Death Talisman into her body.
• Qingyi explained to Ziyi how she had become Li Changfeng's subordinate and persuaded him to spare Ziyi.
• Li Changfeng returned to the inn with Qingyi and Killer Bee, where Blackheart and Viper recognized Killer Bee and Xiao Qing welcomed him.
• Ziyi told Li Changfeng that Butcher Chou Wansen had joined the Hall of the Killing God and that she had last seen him in Northern Di City about half a year earlier.
• Old Zhou offered to help Chou Wansen kill Li Changfeng, then Ghost Shadow appeared and declared that Li Changfeng would die.

Li Changfeng and his companions traveled north from Northern Di City, where they rescued merchants from Northern Di People and uncovered an ambush involving Chou Wansen. After surviving attacks from hidden assassins, Li Changfeng faced another attacker whose dagger nearly reached his neck.

• Li Changfeng and his companions found Northern Di People hunting merchants and killed them after their arrows failed to harm him.
• An elderly merchant stabbed Li Changfeng with a dagger, revealed himself as an assassin, and escaped his counterattack.
• Another assassin attacked Viper, but Li Changfeng knocked aside the assailant’s blood-red saber with a throwing knife.
• The blood-red saber wielder killed five merchants, and Ziyi recognized him as Chou Wansen, who removed his human-skin mask.
• A hidden attacker slashed at Li Changfeng’s neck, but his toughness deflected the dagger; the attacker evaded his kick and remarked that his Toughness Cultivation Method had grown stronger.

Li Changfeng fought Ghost Shadow after Chou Wansen assigned the assassin to attack him. Ghost Shadow wounded Li Changfeng with blades and Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needles, but Li Changfeng’s strength and tough body let him survive; Ghost Shadow’s armor saved him from a crushing counterattack, and both remained ready to continue fighting.

• Chou Wansen told Ghost Shadow to take Li Changfeng while he and another fighter handled the others.
• Ghost Shadow used his speed and short blade to attack Li Changfeng, who endured the cuts and countered with his staff and Vajra Palms of Immense Strength.
• Li Changfeng struck Ghost Shadow out of the air, disarmed him, and slammed him in the chest with the staff.
• Ghost Shadow threw Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needles, and Li Changfeng blocked most of them with his staff before expelling the needles embedded in his body.
• Ghost Shadow revealed his dented armor, while Li Changfeng realized the armor would make it difficult to wound him again.

Li Changfeng fought Ghost Shadow, whose Ghost Mist Shrouds concealed his attacks and made it difficult for Li Changfeng to defend himself. As Ghost Shadow relentlessly cut him inside the mist, Killer Bee and the others remained locked in a desperate battle elsewhere.

• Chou Wansen regained his composure after Old Zhou reassured him, while Killer Bee and the others continued fighting their opponents.
• Li Changfeng unleashed Knocking Mountain Shocking Tiger, but Ghost Shadow countered with Ghost Mist Shrouds and covered the battlefield in black mist.
• Li Changfeng charged into the mist to keep it from spreading to his friends, prompting Ghost Shadow to narrow its range around him.
• Ghost Shadow attacked Li Changfeng from within the mist, where visibility was limited and his movements and killing intent were undetectable.
• Li Changfeng endured a growing number of painful cuts as Ghost Shadow's assault intensified.

Li Changfeng endured Ghost Shadow’s deadly attacks before defeating him with Savage Elephant Tramples the Heavens, but Ghost Shadow escaped with the help of four ghost creatures. Old Zhou then attacked the badly wounded Viper, and Blackheart took the dagger meant for him.

• Ghost Shadow struck Li Changfeng with Vengeful Spirits Fill the Heavens, tearing open his chest and weakening him with poisonous yin force.
• Ghost Shadow used Ghost Shadow Ten Consecutive Flashes to slash Li Changfeng, but Li Changfeng unleashed Savage Elephant Tramples the Heavens and blasted Ghost Shadow into critical condition.
• Li Changfeng recognized Ghost Shadow as a survivor from the Ghost King Sect assassination, but Ghost Shadow escaped on the backs of four ghost creatures.
• Old Zhou lunged at the injured Viper, and Blackheart shoved Viper aside and took the dagger in the right side of his chest.