Chapter Summaries

Zhuge Weiwo led the gathered forces to Red Cloud Mountain and forced them to attack the Blood Demon Sect’s hidden stronghold. The assault devastated both sides until a powerful blood-colored ripple erupted from within the sect and swept toward the attackers.

• Zhuge Weiwo ordered the major powers to gather at Red Cloud Mountain and killed a clan head who tried to sow distrust.
• Wuqing explained to Li Changfeng why the major powers obeyed Zhuge Weiwo without protest.
• Tie Jiancheng led Zhuge Weiwo and the gathered forces through the illusion formation to the Blood Demon Sect stronghold.
• Zhuge Weiwo ordered the attack, and the major powers charged before the sect could prepare its defenses.
• The major powers’ ancestors joined the battle, killing Blood Demon Sect stewards, priests, and reinforcements.
• A blood-colored ripple erupted from within the stronghold, blasting the attackers at the front into blood mist.

Zhuge Weiwo shattered the Blood Demon Sect’s formation, and the invading forces stormed inside. As the battle began, Li Changfeng confronted Ice Serpent and Flame Tiger, whose strength he had greatly surpassed since their last encounter.

• Zhuge Weiwo pierced the blood-red ripple and destroyed the Blood Demon Sect’s grand formation, revealing the sect’s blood-soaked interior.
• Li Changfeng, Princess Minmin, the Four Famous Arresters, and the other forces charged into the Blood Demon Sect as its members counterattacked.
• The Blood Demon Sect Master suspected Tie Jiancheng had betrayed the sect and crushed one of his soul crystals, killing Tie Jiancheng from afar.
• The Blood Demon Sect Master led the sect’s higher-ups against Tianji Prefecture’s forces, while constables and the ancestors of great powers fought back.
• Li Changfeng faced Ice Serpent and Flame Tiger, and the three exchanged powerful palm attacks that blasted a crater into the ground.

Li Changfeng, Princess Minmin, and Leng Xue fought Flame Tiger and Ice Serpent, whose berserk transformations strengthened them and let them turn the battle against the trio. The chapter ended with Ice Serpent attacking Princess Minmin and Leng Xue while Li Changfeng was occupied with Flame Tiger.

• Princess Minmin and Leng Xue attacked Flame Tiger and Ice Serpent, but their attacks were countered, and both were wounded before Li Changfeng intervened.
• Li Changfeng joined the fight and clashed with Flame Tiger, while Princess Minmin and Leng Xue supported him and Ice Serpent attacked with an icy serpent technique.
• Li Changfeng shattered Ice Serpent's attack, but Flame Tiger saved Ice Serpent from the trio's follow-up strikes, leaving the sides evenly matched.
• Ice Serpent and Flame Tiger transformed into beastlike forms, then charged Li Changfeng's group and forced Li Changfeng back with their combined attacks.
• Flame Tiger kept Li Changfeng occupied in a rapid exchange, while Ice Serpent attacked Princess Minmin and Leng Xue with a blood-colored icy claw seal.

Princess Minmin and Leng Xue were grievously injured after Ice Serpent overwhelmed their combined attack, leaving Li Changfeng to face Flame Tiger and Ice Serpent alone. Li Changfeng’s powerful sword strike collided with both enemies’ attacks, creating a devastating storm that threatened all three of them.

• Leng Xue and Princess Minmin combined their strongest techniques to block Ice Serpent’s blood-colored claw imprint, but Ice Serpent struck again and sent them crashing into a crater, grievously injured.
• Li Changfeng realized he had been drawn away by a diversion, returned to Minmin, and told her and Leng Xue to heal while he fought the two enemies.
• Flame Tiger and Ice Serpent charged Li Changfeng, who retreated with Soaring Sky Nine Steps and used Thousand Leaf Sunset Hand as a feint.
• Li Changfeng unleashed Sweeping a Thousand Armies with the Yama Sword, forcing Flame Tiger and Ice Serpent to counter with their fire and ice attacks.
• Li Changfeng’s sword qi storm collided with both enemies’ attacks and churned their powers into a destructive storm that surged toward all three.

Li Changfeng fought Flame Tiger and Ice Serpent, trading powerful attacks that tore open the void and briefly created a deadly gravitational breach. The three launched another clash, with Li Changfeng answering their fire and ice techniques using Mountain Shattering, Earth Rending.

• Li Changfeng evaded a rippling void force that badly injured Flame Tiger and Ice Serpent, whose blood-colored healing power quickly restored them.
• Li Changfeng struck the two with Thunderous Might, scorching their bodies with void thunder, but they recovered and counterattacked with Flame Tiger’s fire fists and Ice Serpent’s frozen python.
• Li Changfeng met their attacks with Great Skill is No Skill, and the collision opened a breach whose gravitational pull threatened to drag all three inside before it suddenly vanished.
• Flame Tiger unleashed Flame Tiger Shakes the Heavens Fist while Ice Serpent used Three Thousand Zhang of Frozen Seal against Li Changfeng.
• Li Changfeng drove the Yama Sword into the ground and used Mountain Shattering, Earth Rending, sending molten lava surging toward their attacks.

Li Changfeng defeated Flame Tiger and Ice Serpent with the Great Subduing Demon Fist, but suffered internal injuries from their attack. As he began healing with Princess Minmin and Leng Xue standing guard, the Blood Demon Sect was nearing defeat.

• Flame Tiger and Ice Serpent's ice-and-fire attack shattered Li Changfeng's Indestructible Vajra Body and injured him.
• Li Changfeng unleashed Vajra Subdues Demons, suppressing the two men's evil-path techniques and killing them.
• Li Changfeng coughed up blood from his internal injuries, and Princess Minmin and Leng Xue offered to guard him while he healed.
• Under Zhuge Weiwo's leadership, more than half of the Blood Demon Sect's mid- and high-ranking members were slain, leaving the sect close to annihilation.

An Jian confronted Hong Yan'er after learning that she had deceived him and caused his brothers' deaths, then fought her in a fierce battle. After more than a hundred exchanges, both were injured and neither had gained the upper hand.

• An Jian accused Hong Yan'er of deceiving him, and she mocked him and admitted her contempt for foolish men.
• An Jian vowed to avenge his dead brothers and attacked Hong Yan'er with his sword, but she evaded his strikes and counterattacked.
• An Jian and Hong Yan'er exchanged ruthless sword and palm techniques, each landing attacks and sustaining injuries.
• An Jian's Sword Like a Raging Dragon clashed with Hong Yan'er's Blood Serpent Lurking Shadow, and the impact forced both fighters back without a clear victor.
• An Jian and Hong Yan'er fought for a quarter-hour, exchanging more than a hundred moves before a final clash left them both injured and facing each other.

An Jian fought Hong Yan'er, whose Blood Poison Mist wounded him and poisoned him despite his advantage in their clash. With the poison threatening to overwhelm him, An Jian unleashed Dragon Heaven Sword Shadow Kill, striking Hong Yan'er with a storm of golden sword qi and leaving her screaming in pain.

• An Jian and Hong Yan'er collided with their second techniques, and An Jian's Dragon Heaven Flying Sword pierced her chest while she narrowly avoided a fatal blow.
• Hong Yan'er activated the Blood Demon Sect's healing method, recovered from her grievous injuries, and resumed attacking An Jian.
• An Jian and Hong Yan'er exchanged rapid sword and palm strikes, but Hong Yan'er's wounds healed as she secretly poisoned him.
• Hong Yan'er pursued the poisoned An Jian, who suppressed the poison and decided to finish the fight with a powerful counterattack.
• An Jian unleashed Dragon Heaven Sword Shadow Kill, and its golden sword qi engulfed Hong Yan'er, making her scream as blood sprayed from her body.

An Jian sacrificed himself to kill Hong Yan'er, then the Blood Demon Sect leader died as Zhuge Weiwo overwhelmed the sect. As the remaining fighters turned toward the Blood Demon Hall, the Blood-Clad Woman summoned a colossal Blood Fox from the sect leader's blood.

• An Jian and Hong Yan'er exchanged devastating attacks, and Hong Yan'er pierced An Jian's heart.
• An Jian detonated himself, killing Hong Yan'er as well, and the Divine Arrest Bureau members let go of their hatred for him.
• Zhuge Weiwo defeated the Blood Demon Sect leader and the Blood-Clad Woman while the sect's upper and middle ranks were wiped out.
• The Blood Demon Sect leader killed himself, and the gathered fighters turned toward the Blood Demon Hall.
• The Blood-Clad Woman shattered the sect leader's corpse, chanted an incantation, and summoned a colossal Blood Fox from the gathered blood qi.

The Blood Fox possessed the Blood-Clad Woman and battled Zhuge Weiwo, while blood-red tentacles erupted across the Blood Demon Sect grounds and attacked the gathered factions. Zhuge Weiwo struggled to hold off the Blood Fox as Li Changfeng and the others fled, leaving the battle and the spreading tentacles unresolved.

• The Blood Fox revealed itself as the Blood Demon Sect’s guardian demon and possessed the Blood-Clad Woman after Zhuge Weiwo refused its offer to let everyone leave.
• Zhuge Weiwo and the possessed Blood-Clad Woman exchanged powerful palm strikes, and Li Changfeng’s group watched as the two Innate Realm experts fought.
• The Blood-Clad Woman unleashed blood-red tentacles that crushed people from Tianji Prefecture and the major factions, absorbing them as nutrients.
• Zhuge Weiwo destroyed some tentacles and ordered everyone to flee, while Li Changfeng and his group escaped ahead of the others.
• The tentacles regenerated and pursued the fleeing crowd as the Blood-Clad Woman kept Zhuge Weiwo occupied with relentless attacks.

Li Changfeng, Wuqing, and the Divine Arrest Bureau fought their way through the Blood Demon Sect’s regenerating crimson tentacles while the major powers suffered devastating losses. As Li Changfeng and Tianji Prefecture waited for Zhuge Weiwo, his battle with the Blood-Clad Woman continued, with both exchanging powerful attacks.

• Wuqing proposed that the strongest fighters take turns cutting through the crimson tentacles, and Li Changfeng and the others used the plan to advance, though many constables died.
• The major powers joined forces to cross the tentacles and lost nearly all their disciples, then clashed with the Divine Arrest Bureau before their ancestors led them away.
• The people of Tianji Prefecture and Li Changfeng’s group stayed behind to await Zhuge Weiwo and the battle’s outcome.
• The Blood-Clad Woman, strengthened by her nourishment, fought Zhuge Weiwo evenly and attacked with her crimson nine-tailed fox phantom.
• Zhuge Weiwo countered the Blood-Clad Woman’s nine tails with golden gangqi spear lights.

Zhuge Weiwo battled the Blood-Clad Woman, overpowering her attacks with his techniques despite her formidable recovery. He unleashed Brilliant Spear against her final beam, and the resulting explosion engulfed and destroyed the Blood Demon Sect hall.

• Zhuge Weiwo and the Blood-Clad Woman clashed, and she revealed her half-demon fox traits before attacking him with a crimson claw.
• Zhuge Weiwo shattered her claw with Unobstructed Flow and grievously wounded her, but she quickly healed.
• The Blood-Clad Woman attacked with her palms and nine tails, but Zhuge Weiwo swallowed her assault with Sleeve Universe.
• The Blood-Clad Woman transformed into a massive nine-tailed fox and fired a devastating dark-red beam at Zhuge Weiwo.
• Zhuge Weiwo pierced through the beam with Brilliant Spear, and the resulting light destroyed the Blood Demon Sect hall.

After the Divine Arrest Bureau destroyed the Blood Demon Sect, Zhuge Weiwo led everyone back to Tianji Prefecture and announced rewards for their service. Meanwhile, Guichouxin suspected Li Changfeng had caused the sect’s downfall, but Shi Wuming refused to join another assassination attempt.

• Zhuge Weiwo appeared above the Divine Arrest Bureau, declared the battle over, and led everyone home after they celebrated the Blood Demon Sect’s destruction.
• Guichouxin and Shi Wuming discussed the Blood Demon Sect’s defeat, and Guichouxin argued that Li Changfeng was behind the evil sects’ repeated failures.
• Guichouxin urged Shi Wuming to help assassinate Li Changfeng, but Shi Wuming refused and ended their conversation.
• Zhuge Weiwo welcomed everyone back to Tianji Prefecture and announced merit-based rewards for the constables.

Li Changfeng and his companions set out for Southern Emperor Province after inviting their friends to attend his wedding. At the province’s border, he reunited with Fu Hu and Jianglong, who had waited for him and warned him not to face danger alone again.

• Princess Minmin invited Wuqing and the others to Southern Emperor Province for Li Changfeng and her wedding, and they planned to bring Zhang Xuandao and Ouyang Duha along.
• Li Changfeng, Princess Minmin, and Zhou Zhiruo left for Southern Emperor Province while Wuqing and the others headed toward Central Province.
• After seven days, Li Changfeng passed the village where Doctor Bai and Xiao Cui had once cared for him, then continued without stopping.
• At the Southern Emperor Province border, Li Changfeng reunited with Fu Hu and Jianglong, who had waited for his return.
• Li Changfeng recounted the dangers he had faced in Eastern Zheng Province, and Fu Hu, Jianglong, and Princess Minmin urged him not to take everything on alone.

Li Changfeng invited Fu Hu and Jianglong to his wedding, then brought Minmin and his companions to the Imperial City to meet Murong Longbo. Murong Longbo tested Li Changfeng's strength, approved him as Minmin's husband, and left the wedding preparations to proceed.

• Li Changfeng invited Fu Hu and Jianglong to his wedding to Princess Minmin and Zhou Zhiruo, and they promised that his Shaolin friends would attend.
• Li Changfeng and his companions returned to the Imperial City and went with Commander Lu to Murong Longbo's residence.
• Murong Longbo teased Li Changfeng about his looks and told him that marrying Minmin would require passing a test.
• Li Changfeng attacked Murong Longbo with the Yama Sword, combining Sword Intent and Force Intent in a powerful crimson strike.
• Murong Longbo crushed Li Changfeng's strike with a silver astral hand and approved him as his son-in-law.

As Li Changfeng prepared for his wedding to Princess Minmin, Changsun Wu persuaded Zhou Mingzong and Wu Tianyi to provoke him at the ceremony. Commander Lu then offered Li Changfeng the post of Deputy Commander, leaving him surprised by the appointment.

• Li Changfeng kept a Defilement Cleansing Pill for Zhou Zhiruo’s future advancement and sent an invitation to Northern Di City for his wedding.
• News of Li Changfeng’s marriage to Princess Minmin spread through the imperial city, upsetting Zhou Mingzong and Wu Tianyi because of their families’ grudges against him.
• Changsun Wu proposed that Zhou Mingzong and Wu Tianyi provoke Li Changfeng at the wedding and defeat him publicly, and they agreed to try.
• Commander Lu visited Li Changfeng and offered him a Deputy Commander’s command token.

Li Changfeng accepted the post of Deputy Commander in the Brocade-Clad Guard, knowing the emperor wanted to strengthen his standing and prepare for the future. He challenged his new subordinates to test his appointment and effortlessly defeated Gongsun Jian’s sword strike, leaving the other commanders to reconsider opposing him.

• Li Changfeng accepted Commander Lu’s offer to become Deputy Commander of the Brocade-Clad Guard.
• Commander Lu gave Li Changfeng a Purple-Gold Four-Claw Python Robe and brought him to meet five thousand-household commanders and their troops.
• Li Changfeng offered to give up his position to anyone who could defeat him, prompting Gongsun Jian to step forward.
• Gongsun Jian unleashed his strongest sword technique, but Li Changfeng flicked the blade aside with one finger without leaving his chair.

Li Changfeng defeated Changsun Jian’s attack, crippled his arm, and ordered him sent to the Iron Prison. The Changsun Family elders debated whether to intervene and decided to discuss the matter with Changsun Wu.

• Changsun Jian attacked Li Changfeng with Rainbow Pierces the Sun, but Li Changfeng shattered his sword qi and crippled his arm.
• Li Changfeng declared Changsun Jian an insubordinate offender and ordered the Brocade-Clad Guard Thousand Households to take him to the Iron Prison.
• Changsun Jian pleaded for mercy, but Li Changfeng refused, and the guards dragged Changsun Jian away.
• A Brocade-Clad Guard Squad Leader reported Changsun Jian’s capture to the Changsun Family elders.
• Changsun Quan warned Changsun Yan against provoking Li Changfeng, and the two elders went to discuss the matter with Changsun Wu.

Changsun Wu and two clan elders tried to secure Changsun Jian’s release by offering Commander Lu valuable pills, but Lu deferred the decision to Li Changfeng. Li Changfeng agreed that Lu could decide and was startled by the size of the Changsun Family’s offering.

• Changsun Wu proposed using valuables to persuade Commander Lu to exchange Changsun Jian out of custody, while vowing to repay Li Changfeng for the humiliation.
• Commander Lu dismissed concerns about the Changsun Family’s influence and said the Brocade-Clad Guard served only His Majesty.
• Changsun Wu offered Commander Lu two Defilement Cleansing Pills and two bottles of Essence Nurturing Pills in return for Changsun Jian’s release.
• Commander Lu said he would consult Li Changfeng, then went to find him late at night.
• Li Changfeng told Commander Lu to make the decision himself and was surprised by the pills, while Lu attributed the family’s wealth to the imperial civil war.

Li Changfeng learned that powerful families were underpaying taxes and that the Emperor wanted him to restore the Brocade-Clad Guard’s authority without destabilizing the army. He raided shops owned by the Changsun, Zhou, and Wu Families, leaving the great families warned that their wealth and influence would not shield them from the Imperial Court.

• Commander Lu explained that the Emperor was cautiously rebuilding the court’s support ahead of a coming calamity, and Li Changfeng understood why he had been appointed Deputy Commander.
• Li Changfeng inspected the Changsun Family’s account book, rejected it as false, killed the shopkeeper, and ordered the shop’s property confiscated.
• When a Changsun Family expert killed two Brocade-Clad Guards, Li Changfeng killed him and ordered his men to kill anyone who resisted, uncovering several hundred thousand taels of silver.
• Li Changfeng raided the Zhou Family’s shop and killed its guards before seizing several hundred thousand taels, then used the same tactics against the Wu Family.
• Li Changfeng returned to his residence with the seized wealth and warned the Changsun Family to produce genuine accounts, as news of the raids spread through the imperial capital.