Chapter Summaries

Su Shi'er learned that the Song Family had been using a disputed debt to torment Old Man Feng and Feng Fei. He promised to protect them while he stayed, then went to deal with the dead thug as the grandfather and granddaughter went inside.

• Su Shi'er ate the hard flatbread without trouble, and Feng Fei hurt her teeth trying to imitate him.
• Old Man Feng told Su Shi'er that his son Feng Wuren and daughter-in-law had died on a mission after entering the Duanmu Family to cultivate.
• Old Man Feng explained that Song Manor claimed Feng Wuren owed a large debt and had repeatedly beaten and harassed him.
• Old Man Feng feared Song Manor would return after discovering Feng Fei, and Su Shi'er promised to protect them.
• Su Shi'er told Feng Fei to take Old Man Feng inside, then walked toward the dead man on the ground.

Su Shi'er buried the man he had killed, then discovered that damaged meridians and a shattered sea of consciousness prevented him from absorbing spiritual Qi. He entered the mountains to gather medicine and hunt for food, returning to Xiaohe Village with herbs and two wild boars while wondering how Old Man Feng had found so many powerful spiritual medicines.

• Su Shi'er buried the burly man's corpse on Gravel Hill and tried to cultivate, but his blocked meridians and damaged sea of consciousness made him collapse coughing blood.
• Su Shi'er decided to heal his injuries and clear his meridians with spiritual medicines, though he could not access the supplies in his Storage Pouches.
• Su Shi'er entered the mountains, set traps for wild beasts, and searched for herbs to treat himself and provide food without burdening Old Man Feng.
• Two agonized howls from the mountains woke residents of Xiaohe Village during the night.
• The next morning, Su Shi'er returned with two wild boars and a bundle of herbs, and wondered how Old Man Feng had obtained numerous grade 2 top-tier spiritual medicines despite being a mortal.

Su Shi'er returned to Old Man Feng’s home with two wild boars, easing the family’s food shortage and bringing Feng Fei a rare moment of happiness. He processed herbs while Old Man Feng butchered the boars, and the story left the family preparing a meal together.

• The village hunters recognized that Su Shi'er had hunted the boars and quietly welcomed Chen San’s death while avoiding involvement with Song Manor.
• Old Man Feng worried about how to obtain grain after offending Song Manor, while Feng Fei waited anxiously for Su Shi'er to return.
• Su Shi'er arrived dragging two wild boars, and Feng Fei rejoiced at his return and the sight of the meat.
• Old Man Feng corrected himself from calling Su Shi'er an Immortal Master to calling him Mr. Wang, then agreed to butcher the boars.
• Su Shi'er processed herbs as Old Man Feng prepared the boars, and Feng Fei happily helped in the courtyard.

Su Shi'er recovered at Old Man Feng’s home while preparing to restore his cultivation and pursue revenge against Demon Shadow Palace. After three months, he set out to investigate a fog-shrouded valley guarded by Frost Giant Wolves, suspecting a rare spiritual medicine was nearing maturity, but stopped when he spotted something outside the courtyard.

• Su Shi'er remembered his grandfather and renewed his resolve to investigate the Venerable Lord and deal with Demon Shadow Palace.
• Old Man Feng prepared a wild-boar feast, and Su Shi'er gave him ointment for his injuries before beginning medicinal baths to recover.
• Su Shi'er stayed with Old Man Feng and Feng Fei for three months, gathering herbs, hunting, practicing martial arts, and teaching Feng Fei fist techniques.
• Su Shi'er made a heavy bow and planned to enter the secluded valley, where several dozen Frost Giant Wolves and their powerful king guarded the depths.
• Su Shi'er suspected rare spiritual medicine might soon mature in the valley, then stopped at the courtyard gate after noticing something in the distance.

Steward Song and the square-faced man, now immortal cultivators, went to deal with Su Shi'er before Young Master Song returned. Steward Song attacked him with a fireball talisman, but Su Shi'er dodged the blast with Shadowless Illusionary Steps.

• Steward Song and the square-faced man discussed their rewards for delivering the spirit herbs and the rare treasure aura the herbs supposedly contained.
• Steward Song said his inquiries showed Su Shi'er had spent the past three months hunting and practicing mortal martial arts, while the square-faced man voiced concern about confronting him.
• The square-faced man spotted Su Shi'er leaving Old Man Feng's house and prepared to attack, but Steward Song warned him and activated a fireball talisman.
• Su Shi'er leaped into the air with Shadowless Illusionary Steps as the fireball struck the ground, leaving a deep crater outside Old Man Feng's courtyard gate.

Su Shi'er used his mortal combat skills to hold off Steward Song and the square-faced man, despite being unable to use cultivation techniques. When they threatened Old Man Feng and Feng Fei, he shielded them, took a hammer blow, and counterattacked by crushing the square-faced man's chest.

• Su Shi'er fired arrows at Steward Song and the square-faced man, but they destroyed them with sword qi and a hammer.
• Su Shi'er evaded their attacks and kept fighting until both opponents began to run low on True Yuan and strength.
• Steward Song redirected his sword qi toward Old Man Feng and Feng Fei, while the square-faced man charged at them.
• Su Shi'er rushed to protect Old Man Feng and Feng Fei, narrowly dodged the sword qi, then took the square-faced man's hammer blow on his back.
• Su Shi'er deflected the hammer and struck the square-faced man with Eight Trigrams Eight Extremes Mountain Collapse Fist, smashing his chest.

Su Shi'er survived Steward Song’s Heavenly Thunder Talisman, which awakened the dormant lightning within his body and revealed his overwhelming power. Steward Song begged for his life as Old Man Feng recognized Su Shi'er as the hope he had been waiting for.

• Su Shi'er knocked the square-faced man down and approached Steward Song with the sledgehammer.
• Steward Song used a Heavenly Thunder Talisman, and its lightning engulfed Su Shi'er while Old Man Feng and Feng Fei feared he had died.
• The talisman’s lightning awakened the power stored in Su Shi'er's five organs and coursed through his body without harming him.
• Old Man Feng recognized Su Shi'er as a true Immortal, while Feng Fei watched in astonishment.
• Steward Song collapsed and kowtowed, begging Su Shi'er to spare his life.

Su Shi'er interrogated Steward Song and learned that the young master of the Song Family had arranged Feng Wuren and his wife's deaths, then refined their souls into a resentment-filled weapon. Old Man Feng and Feng Fei grieved over the revelation as Steward Song waited for Su Shi'er's decision.

• Su Shi'er threatened Steward Song and demanded he prove his value by explaining the Song Family's actions.
• Steward Song said the young master of the Song Family had resented Feng Wuren for surpassing him and marrying Luo Ying, and had been involved in their deaths.
• Old Man Feng and Feng Fei wept after hearing that Feng Wuren and his wife had been harmed because of the young master of the Song Family.
• Steward Song revealed that the young master had refined the couple's souls into a strange weapon and ordered Old Man Feng tortured to enrage Feng Wuren's soul.
• Old Man Feng glared at Steward Song, then looked to Su Shi'er with a pleading expression.

Su Shi'er learned that Steward Song and the square-faced man had become cultivators by taking Marrow Cleansing Spirit Guiding Pills, then seized Steward Song’s remaining pills and left both men barely alive. He gave Old Man Feng the chance to take revenge, and Feng killed the square-faced man before turning toward Steward Song.

• Steward Song told Su Shi'er that Young Master Song had given him and the square-faced man pills and a cultivation method, allowing them to reach Qi Refining in three months.
• Su Shi'er demanded Steward Song’s remaining pills, then struck him with lightning and took the bottle.
• Su Shi'er left the injured men and their weapons for Old Man Feng to use for revenge, then took Feng Fei into the house.
• Old Man Feng ignored the square-faced man’s pleas and stabbed him through the heart.
• Old Man Feng turned toward the terrified Steward Song, who continued begging for mercy.

Su Shi'er used the Heaven and Earth Furnace to refine his marrow-cleansing pills and spent a day purging impurities and tempering his meridians. He realized his strengthened meridians could compensate for his weak Spiritual Root aptitude as he continued seeking a way to reshape it and avenge Grandfather and the villagers.

• Su Shi'er hid himself inside an array and told Feng Fei to wait for her grandfather, leaving her amazed that he had vanished.
• Su Shi'er refined twenty marrow-cleansing pills in the Heaven and Earth Furnace into supreme-quality Spiritual Pills.
• Su Shi'er swallowed the pills in succession for a day and night, purging impurities from his meridians.
• Su Shi'er discovered that his shattered and repaired meridians had become wider and tougher, allowing them to carry more True Yuan and improve his cultivation speed.
• Su Shi'er resolved to seek the Nine Bends Spirit Ginseng and Thousand Year Ganoderma to refine a Spirit Sculpting Pill and repair his Spiritual Root aptitude.
• Su Shi'er felt inspiration strike as he considered his improved meridians and future plans.

Su Shi'er restored his meridians and Dantian Qi Sea through seven days of cultivation, but his foundation and Sea of Consciousness remained badly damaged. While sorting his spoils, he discovered Thousand Year Strike was missing and tried to sense where it had gone.

• Su Shi'er used the Marrow Cleansing Spirit Guiding Pill and Spiritual Qi to purge his meridians, then spent seven days replenishing his severely depleted dantian.
• Su Shi'er recovered sixty or seventy percent of his strength but remained troubled by his damaged foundation and nearly shattered Sea of Consciousness.
• Su Shi'er decided to seek information at a cultivator marketplace and began sorting the spoils he had collected at Yunhan Seven Peaks Mountain.
• Su Shi'er searched his storage ring and Storage Pouch for Thousand Year Strike but could not find the treasure.
• Su Shi'er suspected Thousand Year Strike had fallen into the water near where Old Man Feng found him, then sat down to try sensing the acknowledged treasure.

Su Shi'er sorted the spoils from the battle at Yunhan Seven Peaks Mountain, found and tested Zuo Jun's Tai Chi Profound Shield, and discovered the enormous space inside Monk Sanjie's golden-bordered Buddha character Storage Bag. After transferring his supplies into it, he began examining Monk Sanjie's remaining treasures, starting with five Bodhi Flowers.

• Su Shi'er sensed that Thousand Year Strike might have fallen into the water, but prepared himself for the possibility that it was bait before searching the spoils.
• Su Shi'er sorted the Foundation Establishment cultivators' Storage Pouches and found Zuo Jun's Tai Chi Profound Shield among the treasures.
• Su Shi'er tested the Tai Chi Profound Shield and discovered that it formed a defensive energy field extending up to ten zhang in every direction.
• Su Shi'er placed the Tai Chi Profound Shield in the Heaven and Earth Furnace to temper it.
• Su Shi'er discovered that the golden-bordered Buddha character Storage Bag held nearly one hundred thousand cubic zhang of space and transferred his resources into it.
• Su Shi'er began examining Monk Sanjie's remaining treasures, starting with five Bodhi Flowers.

Su Shi'er examined the treasures he had obtained from Monk Sanjie, including five Bodhi Flowers and a strange Buddhist pestle. He placed the pestle in the Heaven and Earth Furnace and turned his attention to a mysterious tortoise shell containing Demonic Yuan.

• Su Shi'er realized one of the nine Bodhi Flowers had likely been consumed by the Outer Heavenly Demon and stored the remaining five in his discreet Storage Ring.
• Su Shi'er reflected on why his Storage Ring had escaped detection, concluding that it was an uncommon ancient spatial artifact.
• Su Shi'er identified an antique-bronze object as a possible Demon Subduing Pestle and tested it with his True Essence.
• The pestle's golden light and indistinct voices unsettled Su Shi'er, so he stopped channeling True Essence and considered that he lacked Buddhist affinity.
• Su Shi'er put the Demon Subduing Pestle into the Heaven and Earth Furnace, then examined a black tortoise shell whose carved script he could not read and sensed pure Demonic Yuan within it.

Su Shi'er discovered that the tortoiseshell held the Heavenly Demonic Illusory Art, a powerful demonic cultivation method, and decided not to cultivate it because of its risks. He found that its Shapeshifting Qi Circulation Secret Art might work with true essence, and his first test altered the size of his arm.

• Su Shi'er touched the tortoiseshell, which began draining his true essence and transmitted a flood of information into his mind.
• Su Shi'er experienced a vision of demons devouring one another until the last took on the faces of people he had encountered.
• After a day and night of study, Su Shi'er learned that the tortoiseshell contained the Heavenly Demonic Illusory Art, which could rapidly increase a cultivator's strength but risked destroying their nature.
• Su Shi'er rejected cultivating the demonic art for now, but chose to test its Shapeshifting Qi Circulation Secret Art using true essence.
• Su Shi'er circulated true essence through his arm, causing it to grow enormously, then began testing the technique across his body's meridians.

Su Shi'er tested a demonic illusion art with True Yuan and examined the remaining items taken from Zuo Jun. He stored the mysterious soil and began reading a damaged Buddhist scripture while the Heaven and Earth Furnace continued to glow.

• Su Shi'er confirmed that True Yuan could operate the Heavenly Demonic Illusory Art, though it was less effective than the original art and worked well with his Thousand Illusions Mask.
• Su Shi'er tried and failed to tame Zuo Jun's fierce red worms, then froze them again and decided he needed a genuine beast-taming art.
• Su Shi'er found pale yellow soil in a box made of Fire Cloud Stone, could detect nothing unusual about it, and stored it for later investigation.
• Su Shi'er recognized the last item as a damaged Buddhist scripture and began reading it beside the still-glowing Heaven and Earth Furnace.

Su Shi'er refined two High-grade Spirit Artifacts and emerged to find Xiaohe Village in ruins. He followed Feng Fei’s cries to a demonic formation where the villagers were being tormented and found Song Mingyang preparing a sinister ritual.

• Su Shi'er finished studying the Buddhist scripture and discovered that reciting it calmed his mind.
• Su Shi'er retrieved the Tai Chi Profound Shield and Demon Subduing Pestle, both refined into High-grade Spirit Artifacts.
• Su Shi'er emerged from seclusion and found Xiaohe Village reduced to ruins, with no bodies among the wreckage.
• Su Shi'er heard Feng Fei crying out in pain and rushed toward the river, where he found the villagers trapped on a flaming altar.
• Su Shi'er saw Song Mingyang on a second altar as two resentful flying swords transformed into the phantoms of a man and a woman.

Song Mingyang tormented Feng Wuren and Luo Ying, whose souls he had sealed inside flying swords, while using the suffering of Feng Fei and Xiaohe Village to drive them toward becoming resentful spirits. As Feng Wuren lost his reason, Song Mingyang said the Thousand Evil Sword would be forged in three days and challenged Luo Ying to endure their daughter’s torture.

• Feng Wuren and Luo Ying’s spirits tried to reach Feng Fei, but chains restrained them, and Song Mingyang burned them with yin fire.
• Song Mingyang taunted the weakened spirits, and Feng Wuren begged him to spare Feng Fei while accepting punishment himself.
• Song Mingyang intensified the ghostfire tormenting Feng Fei and the people of Xiaohe Village, and taunted Feng Wuren about his father’s death.
• Feng Wuren absorbed resentment from the flying swords, grew stronger and more savage, and rapidly lost his consciousness and reason.
• Song Mingyang said the Thousand Evil Sword would be forged within three days and challenged Luo Ying to remain unmoved by Feng Fei’s suffering.

Song Mingyang forced Luo Ying to absorb the resentment needed to forge the Thousand Evil Sword by threatening Feng Fei, despite Luo Ying’s efforts to resist his plan. Feng Fei’s pleas briefly stirred Luo Ying and Feng Wuren’s fading reason, but Song Mingyang crushed their hope by questioning whether Sick Uncle could save them.

• Luo Ying controlled her anger to weaken Song Mingyang’s plan to forge the Thousand Evil Sword, but Song Mingyang decided to use Feng Fei to break her resistance.
• Song Mingyang seized Feng Fei by the throat and threatened to kill her unless Luo Ying cooperated.
• Luo Ying allowed the dark crimson mist to enter her soul body, and her reason began to fade as her power rose.
• Feng Fei begged Luo Ying not to believe Song Mingyang and said Sick Uncle would save them, briefly stirring Luo Ying’s and Feng Wuren’s remaining reason.
• Song Mingyang mocked Sick Uncle and invoked the Duanmu Family’s power, causing Luo Ying’s hope to fade and the mist around her to calm.

Su Shi'er confronted Song Mingyang while he refined the Thousand Evil Sword using Luo Ying and Feng Wuren’s souls and threatened Feng Fei and the villagers. Su Shi'er weighed the dangers of the formation as Feng Fei silently trusted him to save her, and Song Mingyang warned him against making an enemy of the Duanmu Family.

• Song Mingyang told Feng Fei he would kill her family in three days as he continued refining the Thousand Evil Sword with Luo Ying on the altar.
• Song Mingyang sent two flying swords beyond the formation, but an unseen force stopped them and sent them back before Su Shi'er appeared.
• Song Mingyang recognized Su Shi'er’s Late Foundation Establishment cultivation and demanded to know why he had come.
• Su Shi'er said he wanted to borrow Song Mingyang’s head, while Song Mingyang invoked his master, Duanmu Fenlong, and the Duanmu Family to deter him.
• Su Shi'er carefully studied the formation and gathered true essence, while Feng Fei silently recognized her Sick Uncle and trusted him to save her.
• Song Mingyang asked whether Su Shi'er was determined to become his enemy and the enemy of the Duanmu Family.

Su Shi'er used the Demon Shadow Palace’s name to intimidate Song Mingyang while learning that they were within the Great Zhao Dynasty’s sphere of influence. He attacked Song Mingyang with a river-powered Water Dragon Strike, which crashed into the formation protecting both altars.

• Su Shi'er sent Ice Soul Spiders through a water column and claimed that he belonged to the Demon Shadow Palace.
• Song Mingyang recognized the Demon Shadow Palace’s name, invoked the Great Zhao Dynasty, and suspected Su Shi'er had come to save Feng Fei and the others.
• Su Shi'er inferred that the Duanmu Family had ties to the Great Zhao Dynasty and declared that he would take Song Mingyang’s head.
• Su Shi'er cast Water Dragon Strike, using the river to empower a towering water python that scattered the black mist.
• Song Mingyang activated the formation around both altars, and the water python struck its barrier.