Chapter Summaries

Li Yao brought the injured Lin Yun and two Lin Family elders to the Lin Family estate and demanded compensation, while Lin Yuntian’s father urged him to avoid a fight. Li Yuntian paid Li Yao three hundred thousand Spirit Stones, and Li Yao left with his companions.

• Li Yao presented Lin Yuntian with Lin Yun and two elders, all injured and with their cultivation sealed, provoking Lin Yuntian to summon his fighters.
• Li Fu and Li Ming countered the pressure from Lin Yuntian’s powerful subordinates, while Li Yao quietly prepared to flee if a fight began.
• Lin Chen secretly told Lin Yuntian to endure the insult, pay Li Yao, and wait until Li Fuhai was dead before striking at the Li Family.
• Li Yao demanded three hundred thousand Spirit Stones for Lin Yun and the two elders, and Lin Yuntian reluctantly agreed.
• Li Wenbin stored the Spirit Stones, and Li Fu carried Li Yao and his companions away as Lin Yuntian warned Li Yao against greed.

After confronting the Lin Family, Li Yao rewarded his allies and returned home to rest. Lin Chen reprimanded Lin Yuntian for acting against Li Yao before Li Fuhai died, then said the Li Family would be vulnerable once Li Fuhai’s worsening injuries killed him.

• Lin Yuntian ordered the unconscious elders and Lin Yun carried into the Lin Family hall after Li Yao and his group left.
• Li Yao gave Li Wenbin Spirit Stones for cultivation and the men who had helped, and gave Li Fu and Uncle Ming more for their service.
• Li Fu told Li Yao that the two Lin Family elders’ cultivation would be gone within a month, and Li Yao sent another twenty thousand Spirit Stones for Uncle Shan.
• Li Yao decided to return home instead of visiting the Yang Family, leaving Uncle Shan to handle matters there.
• Lin Chen removed the restraints from Lin Yun and the two elders, then scolded Lin Yuntian for provoking the Li Family while Li Fuhai was still alive.
• Lin Chen told Lin Yuntian that Li Fuhai’s injuries were worsening and ordered him to prepare the three injured men for work after they recovered.

After waking, Li Yao learned that Yang Xiaoran had returned the Yang Family’s debts and that she and Shangguan Yan had fallen out. He received a system reward and decided to consider joining the Special Operations Bureau, leaving that plan for after he rested.

• Li Yao woke late, ate breakfast, and heard from Li Wenbin that the border was unsettled and Uncle Fu, Uncle Ming, and Uncle Shan had returned there.
• Li Wenbin reported that Yang Xiaoran had returned 230,000 Spirit Stones and the borrowed treasures, and Li Yao ordered her watched while offering her a chance to live peacefully.
• Li Wenbin told Li Yao that Shangguan Yan had rejected Yu Xuerou after Yu Xuerou failed to cripple Li Yao at the Martial Arts Tournament.
• The system rewarded Li Yao with 50,000 Background Value, bringing his balance to 122,000, and he told Li Wenbin to warn Yang Xiaoran against causing trouble.
• Li Yao considered visiting the Special Operations Bureau, and the system issued him a mission to join it for a 20,000-point reward.
• Li Yao decided to sleep before pursuing the mission.

Li Yao arrived at the Special Operations Bureau and discovered that its shabby farmhouse entrance concealed a vast realm. After learning how the Bureau operated, he registered as a trainee administrator and received his badge and uniform, while his system rewarded him for joining.

• Li Yao reached the Bureau, where stone lions turned their heads and Bai Yu greeted him after emerging from a teleportation array.
• Bai Yu led Li Yao through the Bureau’s hidden realm and explained its duties, promotion requirements, and benefits.
• Li Yao filled out his registration form, received his trainee administrator badge and uniform, and learned that his assignment schedule began the next day.
• Bai Yu learned that Li Yao was a Ninth Rank Martial Master and said his strength placed him among the best interns.
• Li Yao’s system announced that he had completed the mission of joining the Bureau and awarded him 20,000 Background Value, raising his balance to 142,000.

Li Yao settled into the Special Operations Bureau trainee dorms, joined the bureau app and trainee group, and accepted a mission to investigate a suspected monster in the Imperial Capital’s western outskirts. He planned to return home and have Li Wenbin look for the monster’s traces.

• Bai Yu showed Li Yao how to connect to the Pocket World’s Wi-Fi, install the bureau app, and join the trainee administrator group.
• Li Yao introduced himself in the group as a Ninth Rank Martial Master and a third-year student at Imperial Capital University, prompting other trainees to recognize him from the university tournament.
• Bai Yu registered Li Yao for room 208, gave him the key, and left him to settle in.
• Li Yao browsed the mission board and accepted a trainee mission to find traces of a monster suspected of causing villagers to go missing in the western outskirts.
• Li Yao asked Bai Yu how to leave the Pocket World, learned to scan his ID badge at the access gate, and decided to go home and ask Li Wenbin to search for the monster.

Li Yao learned about the realms beyond Ninth Rank Martial Master and the talent needed to advance. Back in his room, he exchanged Background Value for a Basic Thunder-Type Superpower and a Marrow-Cleansing Pill, which he swallowed.

• Li Yao returned to Li Family Manor and told Li Wenbin about the Special Operations Bureau and its intern group chat.
• Li Wenbin explained the Martial Venerable Realm, how Spiritual Liquid was stored in the Dantian, and the talent needed to reach the Martial King Realm.
• Li Wenbin told Li Yao that his father had reached a hundred-zhang Spiritual Liquid radius when he became a Martial Venerable, surpassing Li Wenbin's grandfather.
• Li Yao used 25,000 Background Value to exchange for a Basic Thunder-Type Superpower, then learned that upgrading it would cost 250,000 Background Value.
• Li Yao exchanged 10,000 Background Value for a Marrow-Cleansing Pill and swallowed it.

After surviving the Marrow-Cleansing Pill, Li Yao followed a new system mission to Heyu Village in the western outskirts, where a suspected giant Snake Demon had driven the villagers indoors. The chapter ended with a young woman letting Li Yao and Li Wenbin into her home.

• Li Yao endured the Marrow-Cleansing Pill’s painful effects overnight, then discovered his meridians, Spiritual Power recovery, and physical capabilities had improved.
• Li Wenbin gave Li Yao photographs of giant scales and trails that pointed to a huge Snake Demon in the western outskirts.
• The system assigned Li Yao a check-in mission in the western outskirts and threatened a penalty if he refused.
• Li Yao and Li Wenbin traveled to Heyu Village, where the streets were deserted and every household was shut up.
• Li Yao hurried to a young woman’s door, and she let him and Li Wenbin inside before closing it in relief.

Li Yao and Li Wenbin learned that security officers had vanished after pursuing the Snake Demon into the mountain, and Li Yao used the system to detect demons nearby. Yan Ling recalled a centipede legend in her grandfather’s manuscript and went to find it.

• Yan Ling told Li Yao and Li Wenbin that the first security officers who chased the Snake Demon had died and that another group had not returned from the mountain.
• Yan Ling introduced herself and teased Li Yao while explaining why she had let the two strangers inside.
• Li Yao received the Demon Detection Function and used the system’s One-Time Exploration Function to detect a Deep-Sea Snake Demon and a Flying Centipede nearby.
• Li Yao asked Yan Ling about local legends involving centipedes, and she remembered a manuscript written by her grandfather.
• Yan Ling searched a storage room for the manuscript and announced that she had found it.

Li Yao learned that a Flying Centipede thought dead had returned to the mountain behind Heyu Village, and decided to investigate after revealing his ability to transform Spiritual Power. He accepted a system quest to kill the demon and headed out, despite warnings about the danger.

• Yan Ling gave Li Yao her grandfather's notebook, which recounted the Flying Centipede's history and its supposed death a century earlier.
• Li Yao told Li Wenbin that a Flying Centipede, probably in the Demon Venerable Realm, was in the mountain behind Heyu Village.
• Li Yao said he would contact the Special Operations Bureau and go investigate, but Li Wenbin tried to stop him and offered to go instead.
• Li Yao shaped Spiritual Power into a great saber, showing Li Wenbin that he could use Spiritual Power Transformation without having reached the Martial Venerable Realm.
• The system issued Li Yao a quest to kill the Flying Centipede, offering 20,000 Background Value, and Li Wenbin agreed to let him go while warning him to flee if necessary.
• Yan Ling asked where Li Yao was going, and he said he was going to slay the beast.

Li Yao followed the demon map into the hills behind Heyu Village, where he discovered the Flying Centipede had killed a public security officer. The Demon Venerable detected Li Yao and turned toward him, leaving him exposed to the monster.

• Li Yao learned the Flying Centipede was roughly three li away and hesitated over whether to confront a Demon Venerable.
• A wounded public security officer warned his captain that the Flying Centipede was hunting officers and urged the bureau not to send more people.
• The Flying Centipede taunted the officer and let him attack with Tiger Fist, then killed him with a single blow.
• Li Yao followed the sound of the strike and found the officer dead while the Flying Centipede fed on his body.
• The system identified the woman as the Demon Venerable Realm Flying Centipede and revealed that lightning and a spot below her navel were her weaknesses.
• The Flying Centipede noticed Li Yao hiding nearby and called him another Ninth Rank Martial Master who had come to die.