Recaps

Lin Fan and Su Yuanshan brought the White Sand Gang under the Su Family’s control after Lin Fan intimidated its members with his Bright Force Realm aura. They inventoried the gang’s wealth and began searching its Scripture Repository, where Lin Fan asked whether it possessed an Inner Qi Circulation Method.

• Lin Fan, Su Yuanshan, and the White Sand Gang’s leader arrived at the gang’s headquarters and entered after the guards recognized their leader.
• The White Sand Gang’s leader announced that the gang would submit to the Su Family, and Lin Fan warned the members against resisting.
• Lin Fan’s aura forced the gang members to kneel and surrender, while more than ten people later chose to leave with some silver.
• The leader showed Lin Fan and Su Yuanshan the treasury, which they estimated held wealth worth at least seven million taels.
• Lin Fan ordered the wealth prepared for delivery to his Sunset Glow Courtyard and then searched the Scripture Repository for martial texts.
• Lin Fan asked the White Sand Gang’s leader whether the gang had an Inner Qi Circulation Method.

Lin Fan obtained the White Sand Gang’s River Inner Qi Art and arranged for its remaining books and treasury wealth to be sent to Sunset Glow Courtyard. He returned to the Su Family Estate with Su Yuanshan, promising to help him reach the Bright Force Realm.

• The White Sand Gang leader gave Lin Fan the River Inner Qi Art from the Scripture Repository.
• Lin Fan ordered the gang to copy the manual and send its other books and treasury gold and silver to Sunset Glow Courtyard.
• Lin Fan and Su Yuanshan rode out of Great River Town and reached Su Family Town after Lin Fan used Inner Qi to restore their steeds’ strength.
• At the town gates, Lin Fan reflected on the Su Family’s deep roots, and Su Yuanshan remarked that the family needed a powerful expert to protect it.
• Lin Fan promised Su Yuanshan he would help him break through to the Bright Force Realm, then returned to Sunset Glow Courtyard on foot.

Lin Fan returned to Sunset Glow Courtyard after defeating Flower Plucker and reunited with Su Qingwei and Lin Ruoruo, who had stayed safe in the Secret Chamber. After sharing a meal, he inspected the gold, silver, and books taken from the gangs and prepared for more deliveries from Great River Town.

• Lin Fan arrived at Sunset Glow Courtyard, where Su Qingwei and Lin Ruoruo welcomed him and told him they had remained safe in the Secret Chamber during the White Ram Gang's attack.
• Lin Fan told Su Qingwei and Lin Ruoruo that he had fought Flower Plucker for six hours and that Flower Plucker had self-destructed after being driven into a dead end.
• Su Qingwei explained that the guards had stored the gangs' gold and silver across five or six rooms and arranged their books on shelves in two or three rooms.
• Su Qingwei brought out a warmed meal, and Lin Fan escorted her and Lin Ruoruo back to their rooms afterward.
• Lin Fan inspected the storerooms and saw that the White Ram Gang and Black Tiger Gang's wealth filled them, with enough space left for the goods expected from Great River Town the next day.

Lin Fan examined and sealed away the Flower Thief’s demonic cultivation manual, deciding it might help him counter similar arts. The next morning, he arranged for Lin Ruoruo to attend lessons at the Su Residence, and she agreed on the condition that Mao Mao could go with her.

• Lin Fan read the Flower Thief’s manual and recognized that its harvesting method could raise strength quickly but made later breakthroughs increasingly difficult.
• Lin Fan wrapped the manual in oil paper and hid it inside a hollow in the bluestone beneath his study so he could study its weaknesses without letting it spread.
• The next morning, Lin Fan proposed that Lin Ruoruo study literature, poetry, etiquette, and other skills with the Su Family girls.
• Su Qingwei supported the plan, and Lin Ruoruo agreed to attend lessons after Lin Fan and Su Qingwei reassured her she could play after class.
• Lin Ruoruo asked to bring Mao Mao to school, and Lin Fan agreed while Su Qingwei arranged the necessary preparations.

Lin Fan recovered from battle by practicing with his spear, then received the valuables and books brought from Great River Town. As Su Yuanshan asked how to handle the imprisoned White Ram Gang members, Lin Fan read their crimes and recognized the notorious steward Fang Lu.

• Lin Fan practiced spear forms to refine his control of Bright Force Realm power.
• Lin Fan told Lin Ruoruo she would begin attending the girls' school after breakfast the next day.
• A guard reported that Great River Town's valuables had arrived and that Su Yuanshan wanted to discuss the captured White Ram Gang members.
• Lin Fan instructed the gang leaders to send the gold, silver, and books to Sunset Glow Courtyard.
• Su Yuanshan showed Lin Fan the prisoners' crime records, and Lin Fan found Fang Lu's extensive record of murder, robbery, arson, and abuse.

Lin Fan and Su Yuanshan decided how to punish the White Ram Gang’s prisoners and reform its seized businesses. Lin Fan returned to Sunset Glow Courtyard, where the gang’s vast stores of wealth were being inventoried and Lin Ruoruo admired them from a safe distance.

• Lin Fan recognized Steward Fang as Fang Lu, judged him and other bloodstained bandits deserving of execution, and proposed hard labor for members who had not killed innocents.
• Su Yuanshan agreed to verify the prisoners’ crimes before publicly executing the worst offenders and sentencing the others to repair damaged villages and roads.
• Lin Fan ordered reforms to the White Ram Gang’s brothels, gambling houses, and money houses, including freeing abducted women and punishing those responsible for killing innocents.
• Lin Fan left Su Yuanshan’s main courtyard and returned to Sunset Glow Courtyard as servants unloaded the gang’s seized wealth.
• Su Qingwei reported that the remaining goods would be recorded and stored for sale, while Lin Fan stopped Lin Ruoruo from entering a storeroom stacked with heavy treasure.

Lin Fan converted the Su Family’s newly inventoried gold and silver into more than 5 million taels in system funds and calculated how long his reserves could sustain cultivation. He decided to remain at Sunset Glow Courtyard, cultivate cautiously, and aim to reach the Transforming Force Realm in about two years.

• The two Bone Tempering Realm gang leaders bid farewell to Lin Fan and returned to Great River Town with their subordinates.
• Su Family guards cleaned Sunset Glow Courtyard after the transported goods had been stored and inventoried.
• Lin Fan used the system to absorb the gold and silver in the warehouse halls, raising his balance from over 1.8 million to more than 5 million taels.
• Lin Fan decided that 5,000 times cultivation acceleration was the fastest daily training pace he could safely control and estimated that reaching the Transforming Force Realm would take about two years.
• Lin Fan weighed the risks of demonic cultivators, the Imperial Court, and moving to the prefectural city, then chose to stay with the Su Family and cultivate in seclusion.

Lin Fan decided to remain with the Su Family and arranged for Small Mountain Village to receive discreet help if trouble arose. He visited the village, raised Big Ox and Uncle Wang to the Mid Skin Tempering Realm, then returned to Sunset Glow Courtyard to cultivate.

• Lin Fan weighed the risks of staying with the Su Family and resolved to continue cultivating at Sunset Glow Courtyard.
• Lin Fan instructed the Su Residence steward to monitor Small Mountain Village and secretly help its villagers if they faced hardship or danger.
• Lin Fan traveled to Small Mountain Village and used a strand of Inner Qi to raise Big Ox to the Mid Skin Tempering Realm.
• Lin Fan brought Big Ox to Uncle Wang's home and raised Uncle Wang to the Mid Skin Tempering Realm, warning both men not to hunt Ferocious Beasts.
• Lin Fan returned to Sunset Glow Courtyard and resumed cultivating with the 5,000-fold acceleration toward thirty thousand strands of Inner Qi.

Lu Qian of the Prefect's Office investigated the Flower Thief's self-destruction and visited Lin Fan to verify his cultivation. After confirming Lin Fan's Inner Qi was orthodox, Lu Qian left him cleared of suspicion and promised a bounty of approximately three million taels.

• Lu Qian examined the crater and confirmed that the demonic Bright Force Realm expert had died by self-destruction.
• Lu Qian visited Lin Fan at the Su Family estate and told him the Imperial Court would award him approximately three million taels.
• Lu Qian asked to examine Lin Fan's Inner Qi to check for signs of demonic cultivation, and Lin Fan agreed.
• Lu Qian found Lin Fan's Inner Qi to be orthodox and praised his solid martial foundation.

Lu Qian questioned Lin Fan about killing the Flower Thief and accepted his explanation, but later revealed that he suspected Lin Fan was hiding the truth and had gained an extraordinary opportunity. Lin Fan resumed cultivating at Sunset Glow Courtyard while recovering from his injuries, unaware that Lu Qian would report his suspicions to higher authorities.

• Lu Qian asked Lin Fan how he had defeated the Flower Thief, and Lin Fan claimed the demonic expert's combat strength had suddenly declined.
• Lin Fan said the Flower Thief's cultivation technique had been destroyed in his self-destruction, and Lu Qian promised to have Lin Fan's wanted notice withdrawn and his rewards delivered.
• Lu Qian gave Lin Fan a calling card, then departed with the other officials after discussing local martial affairs.
• On the road, Lu Qian told the officials he believed Lin Fan had lied and might be concealing an extraordinary opportunity.
• Lu Qian ordered the officials to include their doubts in a memorial to the Prefect's Office, then rode away with them.
• Lin Fan resumed his five-thousandfold cultivation, nourishing his injuries and building Inner Qi without knowing Lu Qian had seen through his lie.

Lin Fan focused on cultivation, then helped Su Qingwei rapidly advance from the Early Muscle Refinement Realm to the Late Muscle Refinement Realm and promised to raise her further. The couple shared a tender evening and went to their bedroom together.

• Lin Fan cultivated through the night while Su Qingwei quietly watched over him.
• Lin Fan decided to strengthen Su Qingwei so she could protect herself and began channeling Inner Qi into her.
• Su Qingwei advanced to the Late Muscle Refinement Realm, and Lin Fan promised to help her reach the Late Bone Tempering Realm within three days and the Bright Force Realm within a month.
• Lin Fan reassured Su Qingwei that he wanted her to survive safely even if he could not be by her side.
• Su Qingwei pledged to stay with Lin Fan, and they kissed before he carried her into their bedroom.

Lin Fan helped Su Qingwei break through to the Early Bone Tempering Realm and gave her a sword manual suited to her new cultivation. He planned to help her reach the Late Bone Tempering Realm the next day.

• Lin Fan explained that he would help Su Qingwei temper her bones and warned her that the process would cause pain.
• Lin Fan fed Su Qingwei a Foundation-Stabilizing Pill and began channeling Inner Qi into her as she circulated her cultivation method.
• Su Qingwei endured the pain as Lin Fan tempered her bones, and she reached the Early Bone Tempering Realm.
• Lin Fan told Su Qingwei to master her new strength before advancing further and promised to help her reach the Late Bone Tempering Realm the next day.
• Lin Fan gave Su Qingwei the Flowing Cloud Fine Sword manual, and she began studying it in Sunset Glow Courtyard.

Lin Fan guided Su Qingwei through sword practice and helped her break through to the late Bone Tempering Realm. He began transferring fifteen streams of inner qi to her each day, leaving her to prepare for a Bright Force Realm breakthrough within a month.

• Lin Fan corrected Su Qingwei's Flowing Cloud Fine Sword technique while she practiced in Sunset Glow Courtyard.
• Lin Fan supplied inner qi as Su Qingwei tempered her bones and reached the late Bone Tempering Realm.
• Su Qingwei continued practicing her sword to gain control of her new strength and match her cultivation to her father, Su Yuanshan.
• Lin Fan set a routine of transferring fifteen streams of inner qi to Su Qingwei daily and estimated she could attempt a Bright Force Realm breakthrough within a month.
• Su Qingwei resolved to become strong enough to protect herself and help Lin Fan face future dangers.

After days of cultivation and peace in Great River Town, Lin Fan received two imperial edicts clearing his past charges and appointing him General Pacifying the Lands. He accepted the rewards and title, then watched the imperial procession depart, intending to keep cultivation as his priority.

• Lin Fan and Su Qingwei continued cultivating while the Su Family restored order in Great River Town.
• An imperial envoy arrived at the Su Family estate with county officials and two edicts for Lin Fan.
• The first edict revoked Lin Fan’s arrest warrant, and the second awarded him three million taels of silver and appointed him General Pacifying the Lands.
• Lin Fan accepted the edicts and learned that local authorities would deliver his reward and monthly stipend.
• The imperial envoy and county officials congratulated Lin Fan and departed, while he entrusted the gilt plaque to the Su Family guards.

After receiving an imperial title, Lin Fan balanced secluded cultivation with visits from nearby martial powers seeking his favor. Once the visitors stopped coming, Su Qingwei had accumulated enough inner qi to attempt a breakthrough to the bright force realm.

• Lin Fan returned to Sunset Glow Courtyard and resumed cultivation while Su Qingwei practiced her sword.
• News of Lin Fan’s imperial rewards spread, bringing a steady stream of congratulatory visitors to the Su Residence.
• Lin Fan met Shi Song of Azure Stone Valley and nearby gang leaders, accepting their gifts and offering help with dangers to the common people.
• Lin Fan continued transferring fifteen strands of inner qi to Su Qingwei each morning as she practiced the Flowing Cloud Fine Sword.
• After more than twenty days of daily training, Su Qingwei reached the point where she could attempt to break through to the bright force realm.

Su Qingwei broke through from the Bone Tempering Realm to the Bright Force Realm as Lin Fan guarded her and concealed the upheaval from the Su Family Estate. She emerged with unified Inner Qi that she could control at will.

• Lin Fan explained the Bright Force Realm breakthrough and warned Su Qingwei not to force herself past her limits.
• Su Qingwei circulated more than three hundred strands of Inner Qi and repeatedly drove them against the barrier between realms.
• Su Qingwei broke through the barrier and fused her Inner Qi into a unified force, releasing a powerful martial aura.
• Lin Fan enclosed Sunset Glow Courtyard in a Protective Barrier and contained the aura until it subsided.
• Su Qingwei opened her eyes and tested the seamless Inner Qi flowing through her body.

Su Qingwei broke through to the Bright Force Realm, and Lin Fan urged her to keep her new strength secret while he continued cultivating and refining elixirs. The household settled into a quiet routine, though Lin Fan remained wary of the martial world and the Imperial Court.

• Su Qingwei entered the Bright Force Realm, and Lin Fan advised her to quietly familiarize herself with her strength and conceal her breakthrough.
• Su Qingwei agreed to hide her realm and warn her parents not to reveal it, since the martial world and authorities were watching the Su Family.
• Lin Fan resumed arduous daily cultivation, aiming to reach fifteen thousand strands of Inner Qi and eventually the Transforming Force Realm.
• Su Qingwei watched Lin Fan cultivate, Lin Ruoruo went to the Su Family Academy with Mao Mao, and Lin Fan refined elixirs for the household.
• Lin Fan considered pill refinement a future livelihood because repeatedly raiding gangs could bring severe punishment from the Imperial Court.

Lin Fan chose alchemy as a safer, lucrative path while continuing his cultivation, and Sunset Glow Courtyard enjoyed six peaceful months as the town prospered. Su Qingwei accidentally revealed her Early Bright Force Realm aura to her parents, leaving Su Yuanshan stunned by her breakthrough.

• Lin Fan studied alchemy and refined several batches of pills before returning to the Stone Platform to cultivate.
• Over six months, the Su Family and Lin Fan reformed the White Ram Gang’s former gray businesses, and the town became more prosperous.
• Su Qingwei visited her parents and relaxed enough to let her Bright Force Realm aura slip out.
• Su Yuanshan sensed Su Qingwei’s aura, dropped his account book, and recognized it as the Bright Force Realm.
• Su Qingwei stopped suppressing her power, and Su Yuanshan asked in disbelief whether she had broken through to the Bright Force Realm.

Su Qingwei revealed to her parents that she had secretly reached the Early Bright Force Realm, and Su Yuanshan ordered the family to keep her strength hidden. Meanwhile, Lin Fan continued cultivating toward fifteen thousand strands of Inner Qi as half a year passed since his breakthrough.

• Su Qingwei told Su Yuanshan and Madam Su that she had entered the Early Bright Force Realm several months earlier and had concealed it on Lin Fan's advice.
• Su Yuanshan agreed that revealing Su Qingwei's strength could endanger her and the Su Family, and he and Madam Su vowed to keep it secret.
• Su Yuanshan asked about Lin Fan, and Su Qingwei said he had been cultivating relentlessly to reach the Mid Bright Force Realm and its threshold of fifteen thousand strands of Inner Qi.
• Su Qingwei became more careful about hiding her aura and trained to control her Bright Force, while Lin Fan continued his daily cultivation at Sunset Glow Courtyard.
• Half a year after Lin Fan entered the Bright Force Realm, his Inner Qi had climbed toward fifteen thousand strands, and the chapter ended on a warm afternoon at Sunset Glow Courtyard.

Lin Fan broke through to the mid Bright Force Realm while Su Qingwei, five months pregnant, waited nearby. After sharing a tender moment with her, he cleaned up the courtyard with his inner qi and checked his cultivation panel, which still showed a balance of thirty-two million.

• Lin Fan gathered fifteen thousand strands of inner qi and broke through to the mid Bright Force Realm, containing the force within the courtyard.
• Su Qingwei brought Lin Fan tea after his breakthrough, and he carefully checked on her and their unborn child.
• Lin Fan escorted Su Qingwei back to the bedroom, then used his inner qi to tidy and restore the courtyard.
• Lin Fan sat on the Stone Platform and opened his panel, seeing a balance of thirty-two million after spending nearly six million over half a year.

Lin Fan began using ten-thousandfold cultivation acceleration as he trained toward the late bright force realm, while Su Qingwei's pregnancy progressed peacefully. In Black Mang Mountain, bone tempering realm scouts discovered that a late bone tempering realm Black-Maned Wild Boar had been behind the recent disappearances.

• Lin Fan decided to keep ten-thousandfold cultivation acceleration active and planned to reach the transforming force realm before helping Su Yuanshan break through.
• Lin Fan cultivated day and night in Sunset Glow Courtyard as Su Qingwei rested, practiced, and watched over her growing pregnancy.
• Reports of hunters and bone tempering realm experts disappearing in Black Mang Mountain prompted local authorities to send scouts to investigate.
• The bone tempering realm scouts found broken weapons and remains as they traveled deeper into the forest.
• The scouts spotted a late bone tempering realm Black-Maned Wild Boar and fled the mountain without confronting it.

The government assembled eight Bone Tempering Realm warriors to capture the Wild Boar Monster Beast, but the hunt became a massacre when the boar overwhelmed them. Three survivors fled in different directions, with the boar pursuing one Late Bone Tempering Realm warrior as he raced toward the forest.

• The government offered a heavy reward and gathered three Late Bone Tempering Realm experts and five Mid Bone Tempering Realm fighters to hunt the boar.
• After four days of searching, the hunting party found the boar resting in a rocky valley and formed an attack formation.
• The boar charged through the formation, killing one Late Bone Tempering Realm warrior and one Mid Bone Tempering Realm warrior while the others' weapons barely wounded it.
• The boar rampaged through the battle and killed the remaining four Mid Bone Tempering Realm warriors.
• The surviving Mid Bone Tempering Realm warrior and two Late Bone Tempering Realm warriors fled in separate directions, and the boar pursued one Late Bone Tempering Realm warrior.

A Wild Boar Ferocious Beast slaughtered most of an eight-person hunting party, prompting the county magistrate to warn nearby villages and seek help from the prefectural city. As Lin Fan cultivated at Sunset Glow Courtyard, a messenger arrived with an official letter from the Prefect's Office.

• A Late Bone Tempering Realm martial artist escaped Black Mang Mountain after five of the hunting party died, two went missing, and he was severely injured.
• News of the hunting party's defeat spread through the town, and people feared the Boar Demon might descend from the mountain.
• The county magistrate ordered warnings and village defenses, then sent an urgent dispatch asking the prefectural city to eliminate the beast.
• Lin Fan cultivated at Sunset Glow Courtyard, using ten-thousandfold Cultivation Acceleration as he advanced toward the Late Bright Force Realm.
• A messenger from the prefectural city arrived at the Su Residence with an official letter for General Pacifying the Lands, Lin Fan.

Lin Fan accepted the Commandery Government’s mission to slay a savage wild boar on Black Mang Mountain and set out alone after reassuring Su Qingwei. He reached the forest and began tracking the beast, whose location remained unknown.

• The commandery envoy delivered an order asking Lin Fan to kill a late bone tempering realm wild boar after it defeated eight martial artists.
• Lin Fan studied the dossier, accepted the mission, and decided his mid bright force realm cultivation made the task manageable.
• Lin Fan told Su Qingwei he would go alone, and she warned him to prioritize his safety before he left.
• Lin Fan traveled to Black Mang Mountain with his iron spear and entered the forest.
• Lin Fan examined the battlefield traces and used his senses to search for the boar.

Lin Fan found and killed the late bone tempering realm wild boar, then brought its valuable corpse back to the Su Family Estate. After leaving Su Yuanshan to process it, he returned to cultivating while Su Yuanshan arranged for the beast's parts to be used by the family.

• Lin Fan tracked the wild boar to a cave and killed it with a single spear strike while it slept.
• Lin Fan decided to give the boar to Su Yuanshan and carried its corpse back to the Su Family Estate.
• Lin Fan left the corpse with the guards and returned to Sunset Glow Courtyard to resume cultivating after checking on Su Qingwei.
• Su Yuanshan inspected the boar, recognized the force of Lin Fan's attack, and ordered two stewards to arrange the processing of its valuable parts.