Chapter Summaries

Wu Yi awakened his past-life memories and discovered a panel that could restore his damaged cultivation using energy. After secretly regaining some strength, he planned to rebuild the True Intent Martial Hall and confront its enemies, but an argument outside interrupted him.

• Wu Yi escaped from a graveyard after two men dumped him there and later recalled being knocked unconscious outside his martial hall.
• Wu Yi remembered how his father and the True Intent Martial Hall’s disciples died fighting a demon tide, while his own cultivation was crippled and the hall fell into ruin.
• Wu Yi discovered a virtual panel that accumulated energy and could improve realms, heal injuries, and raise martial arts proficiency.
• Wu Yi found that using the panel to recover his injuries restored him to the mid qi-channeling realm, though half his meridians remained blocked.
• Wu Yi resolved to build strength in secret before confronting the factions that had preyed on his family’s hall, then heard an argument outside.

Pockmarked Sun staged a refund dispute at True Intent Martial Hall while Jackal tried to force his way inside and intimidate Li Kuai. Just as Jackal shoved Li Kuai aside, someone burst out of the hall and kicked Jackal away.

• Pockmarked Sun accused True Intent Martial Hall of cheating him and demanded his training fees back, but he avoided fighting Butcher Hu by provoking him into anger.
• Jackal stopped Hu Rong from striking Pockmarked Sun, revealed his Skin-Flesh Realm strength, and drove the crowd away.
• Jackal demanded that Li Kuai refund Pockmarked Sun’s expenses and threatened to confront the martial hall master, whom Li Kuai could not reach.
• Jackal shoved Li Kuai aside and tried to enter the hall, but its gates burst open and an unseen figure sent him flying with a Shadowless Kick.

Wu Yi confronted Jackal and Pockmarked Sun after they caused trouble at the True Intent Martial Hall, accepting silver compensation while concealing that his injuries had healed. After hearing Li Kuai’s account, Wu Yi suspected the Wild Wolf Gang had tried to seize the hall and decided to investigate further, while planning to visit the injured Hu Rong.

• Wu Yi emerged from the martial hall and confronted Jackal, whose words revealed that the Wild Wolf Gang had attacked Wu Yi the previous night.
• Jackal apologized, made Pockmarked Sun kneel and beg forgiveness, and offered twenty taels of silver as compensation.
• Wu Yi accepted the silver and let Jackal and Pockmarked Sun leave, hiding his recovery because he suspected someone powerful stood behind the Wild Wolf Gang.
• Li Kuai told Wu Yi how the gang had tried to seize the martial hall, and Wu Yi vowed to settle the account while planning changes to the hall’s rules.
• Wu Yi told Li Kuai to get healing medicine and planned to visit Hu Rong, who had been injured while helping the martial hall.

Hu Rong sought his father Hu Yong’s help after being injured while defending True Intent Martial Hall, but Wu Yi arrived and said he had already handled the trouble. Back at the martial hall, Wu Yi learned Zhou Man had quit and went to investigate, finding him working at Cloudwater Wharf.

• Hu Rong begged Hu Yong to save Li Kuai, and Hu Yong agreed to go to True Intent Martial Hall despite his concerns about the Hu Household.
• Wu Yi arrived at the Hu estate, told Hu Rong he had already taken care of matters at the martial hall, and gave him medicine for his injured hand.
• At the martial hall, Wu Yi learned from Li Kuai that Zhou Man had stopped coming and refused to let Li Kuai visit him.
• Wu Yi decided to find out why Zhou Man had left and vanished from the martial hall, telling Li Kuai to watch the grounds.
• Zhou Man carried heavy sacks at Cloudwater Wharf while a Wild Wolf Gang lackey urged the laborers to hurry.

Wu Yi learned that Zhou Man had gone to Cloudwater Wharf and found that the Wild Wolf Gang had forced him into labor through a fraudulent debt. Meanwhile, the gang leader prepared for the possibility that Wu Yi was no longer human, leaving Zhou Man trapped at the gang-controlled wharf.

• Jackal reported that Wu Yi had appeared at True Intent Martial Hall, and Chen Dao rewarded him with the vacant position of fourth chief.
• Second told Chen Dao that Wu Yi was likely not human because his breath had completely ceased when Second checked him.
• Chen Dao ordered Second to arrange the gang's defenses and went to investigate the Zhang Household.
• Wu Yi visited Zhou Man's sick mother, left medicine for her, and learned Zhou Man had gone to a wharf to earn money.
• At Cloudwater Wharf, Zhou Man worked under the Wild Wolf Gang after its members had forced him to sign a contract selling himself to repay a fabricated debt.

Zhou Man collected his wages at Cloudwater Wharf after standing up to Huang Jia for shoving Uncle Liu, who urged him to let the insult go. A Wild Wolf Gang disciple arrived and the overseer began selecting laborers for a better-paid job, calling Zhou Man, Uncle Liu, and Huang Jia among others.

• Wu Yi hurried to Cloudwater Wharf after learning Zhou Man might be there, worried because it was Wild Wolf Gang territory.
• Huang Jia shoved Liu Shi aside, but Zhou Man caught him and confronted Huang Jia; Liu Shi stopped Zhou Man from escalating the dispute and apologized to Huang Jia.
• The overseer announced Zhou Man had carried sixty-six sacks and paid him sixty-one copper coins, startling the laborers and unnerving Huang Jia when he recognized Zhou Man.
• A Wild Wolf Gang disciple arrived and spoke with the overseer, who began selecting workers for an urgent job with good pay.
• The overseer called Liu Shi, Huang Jia, Zhou Man, and several other laborers to come forward and follow the Wild Wolf Gang disciple.

Zhou Man was selected with several other laborers for urgent work, though he felt uneasy as they followed a Wild Wolf Gang member away. At Cloudwater Wharf, Wu Yi went looking for Zhou Man but met the enchanting Su Yan and followed her onto her father's pleasure boat.

• The overseer selected Zhou Man, Uncle Liu, and several other laborers for a job, and a Wild Wolf Gang member led them away.
• Wu Yi arrived at Cloudwater Wharf to find out whether Zhou Man was there or had gone elsewhere.
• Wu Yi saw Su Yan and briefly lost his senses under her bewitching charm before recovering.
• Wu Yi introduced himself as Wu Yong, while Su Yan gave her name and said she had come from Blackwater City with her father on business.
• Su Yan invited Wu Yi aboard her father's pleasure boat, and he accepted.

Wu Yi met Su Yan’s father aboard the tower ship and used his claimed ties to the Zhang and Wang households to win his approval as a marriage prospect. Su Yan agreed to the match, and her father asked Wu Yi to bring his father the next day, but a familiar voice interrupted Wu Yi and Su Yan on the deck.

• Wu Yi followed Su Yan aboard the tower ship and endured the strong smell of spices as she led him to her father.
• Su Yan introduced her father and Uncle Xiang; Uncle Xiang left after exchanging a brief, familiar glance with Wu Yi.
• Su Yan’s father questioned Wu Yi about his home and family, and Wu Yi claimed his Wu Household had ties to the Zhang and Wang households.
• After Su Yan explained how she and Wu Yi had met, her father approved of Wu Yi and asked whether Su Yan pleased him.
• Wu Yi professed his admiration for Su Yan, and she nodded her agreement to the match.
• Su Yan’s father asked Wu Yi to bring his father the next day to discuss marriage, then dismissed them; a familiar voice interrupted Wu Yi on the deck.

Wu Yi searched for the faint voice of his disciple Zhou Man while spending time with Su Yan aboard her ship. After Su Yan lured him into her private chamber and began seducing him, the ship rocked, and Wu Yi abruptly struck her and sent her flying.

• Wu Yi heard Zhou Man's voice from beneath the deck and asked Su Yan about the area below the ship.
• Su Yan agreed to take Wu Yi to the cargo hold, but first led him to her private chamber to fulfill her request.
• Su Yan dressed up, drew close to Wu Yi, and began undoing his clothes as the ship rocked.
• Wu Yi declared that he wanted peace and prosperity for the Great Yan Kingdom, then punched Su Yan in the stomach and sent her flying.

Wu Yi exposed Su Yan as a Skin-Painting Demon and fought her before searching the ship for Zhou Man. He rescued Zhou Man and Uncle Liu, but an unseen attacker confronted him as he tried to escape.

• Wu Yi revealed that he had resisted Su Yan's bewitchment, then struck her when she shed her human disguise and became a Skin-Painting Demon.
• Wu Yi blasted the Skin-Painting Demon through a wall and rushed beneath the deck to find Zhou Man.
• Wu Yi found Zhou Man bound in a cabin with several unconscious men and freed him.
• Wu Yi agreed to carry Uncle Liu too, then kicked away a gleaming object that flew at him.
• A voice asked Wu Yi where he thought he was going.

Wu Yi escaped the pleasure boat after fighting a fox demon and returned to True Intent Martial Hall with Liu Shi and Zhou Man. As Zhou Man began explaining himself to Wu Yi and Li Kuai, constables sealed off the Su Household’s pleasure boat and confronted Father Su over a report that it harbored demons.

• Wu Yi recognized the beautiful woman as a fox demon, fought her, and fled after bluffing her with the Heavenly King Demon-Subduing Fist.
• Wu Yi carried Liu Shi and Zhou Man back to True Intent Martial Hall, where Zhou Man woke and Li Kuai greeted them.
• Wu Yi stopped Li Kuai from attacking Zhou Man and asked him to explain why he had left the martial hall.
• A constable led a team to seal off the Su Household’s pleasure boat and ordered everyone aboard to disembark for inspection.
• Father Su protested that his household had never harbored demons, and the constable presented him with an object as evidence.

The Demon Suppression Bureau boarded the Su Household’s tower ship, where Father Su revealed himself as a demon and attacked the guards. At True Intent Martial Hall, Wu Yi learned the Wild Wolf Gang had forced Zhou Man into labor and vowed to settle the debt with them.

• Chief Banner Officer Wang used the Demon-Seeking Spirit Compass to trace demonic aura to the Su Household’s tower ship and ordered Father Su arrested.
• Father Su transformed, killed two Demon Suppression Guards, and attacked as Chief Banner Officer Wang led the others against him.
• Zhou Man explained that the Wild Wolf Gang had used a damaged sack as an excuse to demand twenty taels and force him to keep working at Cloudwater Wharf.
• Li Kuai learned why Zhou Man had driven him away and reconciled with him after recounting the Wild Wolf Gang’s other wrongdoing.
• Wu Yi vowed to collect his debt from the Wild Wolf Gang, while Li Kuai warned him that two peak Skin-Flesh Realm Martial Artists guarded the gang.

Wu Yi discovered that killing demons granted Bronze Energy and used it to heal his injuries and return to the Peak Meridian Passage Realm. While teaching Li Kuai and Zhou Man the Primal Unity Wishful Stance, he showed them two powerful fist moves, then urged them to focus on the basics.

• Wu Yi realized that killing the Skin-Painting Demon had earned him an extra point of Bronze Energy.
• The next day, Wu Yi made Li Kuai and Zhou Man practice the Primal Unity Wishful Stance and corrected them with his stick.
• Wu Yi checked his panel and found that he had healed his internal injuries, cleared his blocked meridians, and regained the Peak Meridian Passage Realm.
• Wu Yi demonstrated two forceful moves and called them the Hell-Suppressing Mountain Sinker and Demonheart Thrust, claiming they belonged to the Intent-Suppressing Hell Demon Fist.
• Li Kuai and Zhou Man knelt and praised Wu Yi for teaching them the secret technique, but he told them to master the stance before reaching for lofty ambitions.

Wu Yi warned Li Kuai and Zhou Man about the dangers of weakness, then resolved to secretly strike the Wild Wolf Gang after recovering his strength. At the gang’s headquarters, Chen Dao remained on edge and argued with his second-in-command about their situation as a sudden thud sounded outside.

• Wu Yi scolded Li Kuai and Zhou Man, then promised to supervise their training so they could eventually manage True Intent Martial Hall.
• Li Kuai mistook Wu Yi’s serious words for a farewell and cried, prompting Wu Yi to send both disciples to train.
• That night, Wu Yi changed into night-traveling clothes and set out to attack the Wild Wolf Gang.
• At the Wild Wolf Gang headquarters, Chen Dao complained about their reversed schedule while his second-in-command urged him to stay hopeful.
• Chen Dao erupted in anger when he learned their third brother had gone to Spring Fragrance House, then a thud sounded outside.

Chen Dao visited Zhang Bicheng after failing to capture True Intent Martial Hall, then learned the Zhang Household planned to use the Wild Wolf Gang as a disposable pawn. When an unseen attacker struck the gang, Chen Dao and the Second Gang Leader prepared to fight their way out and leave Cloudwater City if they survived.

• Chen Dao reported to Zhang Bicheng that Wu Yi might be a demon in disguise, and Zhang ordered the Wild Wolf Gang to remain idle until the Zhang Household sent help.
• After Chen Dao left, a hidden figure suggested using the Wild Wolf Gang to aid the injured Ninth Brother, and Zhang Bicheng agreed while warning him to act cleanly.
• A heavy thud outside the hall received no answer from Doggie, so Chen Dao and the Second Gang Leader armed themselves.
• Chen Dao recalled how the Wild Wolf Gang had once fought for its ideals before becoming a tool of the Zhang Household, and he resolved to leave with his brothers if they escaped.
• Chewing sounds rose outside the silent hall, and Chen Dao and the Second Gang Leader exchanged a determined glance.

Wu Yi reached the Wild Wolf Gang’s stronghold and found its members slaughtered by a demon. Chen Dao died after his second-in-command betrayed him, leaving the demon and the surviving traitor as Wu Yi arrived.

• Chen Dao and his second-in-command left their room and found the Wild Wolf Gang’s stronghold strewn with corpses, including Doggie’s headless body.
• The demon appeared on the roof holding Doggie’s head, and Chen Dao and his second-in-command attacked it in a fury.
• Wu Yi hurried to the stronghold, wondering whether destroying the Wild Wolf Gang might bring trouble to the True Intent Martial Hall.
• Wu Yi entered the silent, blood-soaked grounds and saw Chen Dao facing the demon and his second-in-command.
• Chen Dao tried to activate a desperate technique, but an explosive force struck him from behind and sent him flying.
• Chen Dao accused his second-in-command of betrayal, then collapsed and died as the traitor stood beside the demon.

Chen Dao was ambushed by his Second Master, who revealed that he had allied with a demon and blamed Chen Dao for the Wild Wolf Gang’s destruction. Chen Dao tried to fight back but the demon killed him, leaving the Second Master to pursue the rewards promised by the Zhang Household.

• After Chen Dao’s Bloodburst Technique left him weakened, the Second Master revealed himself as his betrayer and mocked him.
• The Second Master accused Chen Dao of surrendering the Wild Wolf Gang to the Zhang Household and causing its destruction.
• Furious at being falsely accused of colluding with demons, Chen Dao forced himself up and attacked the Second Master and the demon.
• The demon stopped Chen Dao’s saber and pierced his chest, killing him.
• The Second Master said he would use the Zhang Household’s promised benefits to build new Wild Wolf Gangs after reaching the Meridian-Piercing Realm.

After the Wild Wolf Gang fell, the Second Boss tried to leave, but Zong Jiu killed him and began feasting. Wu Yi attacked the demon and drove it into a desperate fight, leaving Zong Jiu searching for a way to survive.

• The Second Boss mourned Chen Dao briefly, then tried to leave after claiming the Zhang Household's task was complete.
• Zong Jiu killed the Second Boss as he turned to go and began licking the blood from his hand.
• Wu Yi struck the Second Boss's head with Sword Qi, then charged Zong Jiu with Hell-Suppressing Mountain Sinker.
• Zong Jiu blocked Wu Yi's first punch with his swollen demonic arm, but Wu Yi's Demonheart Thrust forced him back and injured him.
• Wu Yi pressed Zong Jiu with a fierce series of attacks, and Zong Jiu prepared to endure another blow and seize him in an embrace.